EDN

Assertion Methodologies for Verilog Design

Sometimes good ideas take a while to catch on in engineering practice. The use of in-line assertions to document assumptions and check for problems in RTL code is one such idea. Long ago proposed for ...
Design-Reuse

Reusing Verilog IP Cores in SystemC Environment by V2SC

SystemC 2.1 supports all hardware concepts introduced by HDLs such as Verilog and VHDL. V2SC proposes a methodology for automatic conversion of Verilog 2001 constructs into SystemC 2.1 language. This ...
Design-Reuse

System Verilog based Generic Verification Methodology for IPs/ASICs/SOCs: A Case Study

This document discusses Random constraint-based verification and explains how random verification can complement the directed verification for the generic designs. In our case this is demonstrated by ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog?

Designers of electronic hardware describe the behavior and structure of system and circuit designs using hardware description languages (HDLs)—specialized programming languages commonly known as VHDL, ...