Posted in SystemVerilog Verilog

SystemVerilog: `define gotchas

It is very common to use macros using `define in Verilog and SystemVerilog. While this may be an easy way to define some commonly used…

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Posted in Chisel

Chisel: A Language for Software Defined Hardware

Chisel (Constructing Hardware In a Scala Embedded Language) is a hardware construction language. It is aimed a enabling highly parameterizable hardware design using the power…

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Posted in Design Example SystemVerilog Verilog

Design Example: ALU 01 Testbench (alu_01_tb_01)

Testbench for ALU 01 design example is shown below.

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Posted in EE-General Social

Veryl 0.13.0 release

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Posted in Social SystemVerilog

What you like and dislike about SystemVerilog

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Posted in SystemVerilog Verilog

SystemVerilog: Source Order Execution

Here is a rule in SystemVerilog (SV) LRM that specifies how non-blocking statements in a begin-end block are executed. Consider the example shown below. It…

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Posted in Design Example SystemVerilog Verilog

Design Example: Traffic Lights 01

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Posted in Design Example SystemVerilog Verilog

Design Example: ALU 01

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Posted in Design Automation EE-General Reusable Designs

Design-Reuse, Portable Design, Retargetable Design, IP

Design reuse is not a new concept. This is something that the software folks have been doing very effectively for decades. Naturally, it makes a…

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Posted in Design Automation Verilog

Verilog::Preproc – The Handy Verilog Preprocessor

I have been developing some tools at work to generated Verilog macros to automate some aspects of an ASIC design implemented in Verilog. Some of…

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