Electronic Design

VHDL Code Offloads LED Blinking Task To A CPLD

An earlier Idea For Design (“Hardware-Based LED Blinking Control Eliminates Software Overhead,” Sept. 27, 2007, p. 52) described a very interesting way to offload the software overhead required for a ...
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Accellera VHDL Standard

In July 2006, the Accellera board approved a revision VHDL standard (revision 1076-2006-D3.0) put forward by the Accellera VHDL Technical Subcommittee (VHDL TSC). As an Accellera standard, revision ...
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COMP_ENG 355: ASIC and FPGA Design

This course will introduce students to practical design methodologies for developing applications for FPGAs and ASICs. You will learn the fundamentals for FPGA and ASIC design through software coding ...
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FPGA design tool bypasses VHDL coding

CoDeveloper, a C language design tool for Altera Nios-based and Xilinx MicroBlaze-based programmable platforms, allows creation of a complete hardware/software application with no need to write VHDL ...
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Simulation and Optimization of VHDL Code for FPGA-Based Design Using Simulink

Simulations and prototyping have been a very important part of the electronics industry since a very long time. In recent years, FPGA’s have become increasingly important and have found their way into ...
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Design and Simulation of 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface Adapter Using VHDL

The 8255A Programmable Peripheral Interface (PPI) implements a general-purpose I/O interface to connect peripheral equipment to a microcomputer system bus. The core’s functional configuration is ...