Hackaday

Learning Verilog For FPGAs: The Tools And Building An Adder

Over the last year we’ve had several posts about the Lattice Semiconductor iCEstick which is shown below. The board looks like an overgrown USB stick with no case, but it is really an FPGA development ...
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 ...
Electronics For You

Icarus Verilog: Your First Step Into Digital Design

Learn how a free tool lets you build and test digital circuits on your computer and see how chips really work before making ...
CU Boulder News & Events

FPGA Design for Embedded Systems Specialization

This online engineering specialization will help you gain proficiency in creating prototypes or products for a variety of applications using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). You will cover a ...
TechRepublic

FPGA Implementation of Interrupt Controller (8259) by Using Verilog HDL

A priority interrupt controller is a hardware designed chip which acts as an overall system manager to efficiently handle the multiple interrupts that tend to occur from the varied number of ...
Electronic Design

Verification Techniques For FPGA Designs

With the increasing size and complexity of FPGA devices, there is a need for more efficient verification methods. Timing simulation can be the most revealing verification method; however, it is often ...
Linux Journal

Icarus Verilog: Open-Source Verilog More Than a Year Later

About 16 months ago, in the February 2001 Linux Journal [see www.linuxjournal.com/article/4428], we reviewed the state of open source in electronic design automation ...
Design-Reuse

High Density FPGA Package BIST Technique

Over 81% of new digital designs utilize Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). With FPGA packages exceeding 1,000 pins, with Ball Grid Array (BGA) solder bumps providing the interconnect, it is ...
EurekAlert!

Low-cost visible light communication system achieves stable outdoor data transmission using LEDs

Researchers have developed a low-cost visible light communication (VLC) system using commercially available hardware that ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Security Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures

A field-programmable gate array (FPGA), which consists of memory, programmable logic gates, and other components, is generally involved in digital-circuit design. FPGA settings are typically defined ...