Hackaday

Visualizing Verilog Simulation

You don’t usually think of simulating Verilog code — usually for an FPGA — as a visual process. You write a test script colloquially known as a test bench and run your simulation. You might get some ...
Hackaday

32C3: A Free And Open Source Verilog-to-Bitstream Flow For ICE40 FPGAs

[Clifford] presented a fully open-source toolchain for programming FPGAs. If you don’t think that this is an impressive piece of work, you don’t really understand FPGAs. The toolchain, or “flow” as ...
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 ...
EDN

‘Obfuscators’ render Verilog, VHDL unreadable

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Providing a new approach to intellectual property (IP) protection, software engineering firm Semantic Designs has released production-quality “obfuscators” for Verilog 2001 and ...