EDN

The VHDL and Verilog story

I put a blog entry up on the Oasys blog about their new release, which is the first to support VHDL. But a couple of people told me it was a nice recounting of history so I decided to put a more ...
EDN

EDN Access–04.10.97 VHDL and Verilog fundamentals–expressions, operands, and operators

The data objects in VHDL and Verilog form expression operands. Knowing the operand differences between the two HDLs helps you write more efficient chip-design code. Expressions consist of operators ...
Electronic Design

VHDL/Verilog Simulator Shows 300% Speed Improvement

The new Active-HDL 4.2 Standard Edition shows a 300% simulation speed improvement over the previous 4.1 version for both VHDL and Verilog designs. Additionally, for Verilog designs, Active-HDL 4.2 ...
Electronic Design

Getting To A Higher Level

The war was over, Verilog had won, and it remains the dominant HDL to this day. When Cadence opened up Verilog to short-circuit widespread adoption of VHDL, design sizes were on the order of 10,000 to ...
Design-Reuse

Synopsys speeds Verilog, VHDL simulation

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Claiming substantial speedups in its Verilog and VHDL simulation products, Synopsys Inc. this week is announcing releases of its VCS Verilog and Scirocco VHDL simulators. The ...
Design-Reuse

Free Model Foundry Announces Availability of VHDL and Verilog Models for Spansion's MirrorBit(R) ORNAND(TM) Solutions

Addition of Spansion Flash Memory Marks 10,000th Part Number for Free Model Foundry SAN JOSE, Calif.--Aug. 10, 2006--Free Model Foundry (FMF), an open source model warehouse and design services ...
Hackaday

Did You Know YoSys Knows VHDL Too?

We’ve been fans of the Yosys / Nextpnr open-source FPGA toolchain for a long while now, and like [Michael] we had no idea that their oss-cad-suite installer sets up everything so that you can write in ...
Hackaday

FPGA Clocks For Software Developers (or Anyone)

It used to be that designing hardware required schematics and designing software required code. Sure, a lot of people could jump back and forth, but it was clearly a different discipline. Today, a lot ...
Electronics Weekly

Tenison adds VHDL to model translation tool

UK design automation firm Tenison has added mixed language support to its VTOC product by adding VHDL capability. The firm said the move should make it easier for customers to model their designs. “It ...
Yahoo Finance

Menta Follows FPGA Leaders by Selecting Verific for its SystemVerilog, VHDL Front End

ALAMEDA, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 2, 2014) - Verific Design Automation today announced Menta® selected its industry-standard, IEEE-compliant SystemVerilog and VHDL parsers to serve as the front end to ...