Hackaday

Open Source IDE For FPGAs As QtCreator Learns Verilog

Classic battles: PC vs Mac, Emacs vs Vi, Tastes Great vs Less Filling, and certainly one that we debate around the Hackaday watercooler: command line or IDE? There’s something to be said for using ...
Hackaday

Learning Verilog For FPGAs: Hardware At Last!

Getting into FPGA design isn’t a monolithic experience. You have to figure out a toolchain, learn how to think in hardware during the design, and translate that into working Verliog. The end goal is ...
Design-Reuse

Guidelines for Verilog-A Compact Model Coding

The Verilog-AMS hardware description language [1] includes extensions dedicated to compact modeling, but does not define a reserved subset for compact modeling. This lack of specification combined ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Largest High-Quality Verilog Dataset for LLM Fine-Tuning (Univ. of Florida)

A new technical paper titled “VerilogDB: The Largest, Highest-Quality Dataset with a Preprocessing Framework for LLM-based RTL Generation” was published by researchers at the University of Florida.
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, ...
CU Boulder News & Events

ECEA 5361 Hardware Description Languages for FPGA Design

This course will give you the foundation for using Hardware Description Languages, specifically VHDL and Verilog for Logic Design. You will learn the history of both VHDL and Verilog and how to use ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Benchmark For AI-Aided Chip Design That Evaluates LLMs Across 3 Critical Tasks (UCSD, Columbia)

Researchers at UCSD and Columbia University published “ChipBench: A Next-Step Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Performance in AI-Aided Chip Design.” Abstract “While Large Language Models (LLMs) show ...
Design-Reuse

System Verilog + OVM: Mitigating Verification Challenges & Maximizing Reusability

Verification – has been becoming a nightmare for engineers with the increasing requirements and complexity of the design. Mitigating the complexity of a verification environment with the increasing ...