Design-Reuse

Open-source Framework and Practical Considerations for Translating RTL VHDL to SystemC

SystemC has gained wide acceptance in the design of new digital IPs. However, there are numerous IPs already designed in VHDL. With the advances in SystemC ecosystem, like IEEE standardization, TLM-2 ...
Design-Reuse

From Behavioral to RTL Design Flow in SystemC

This paper reports the scientific collaboration between LLR and PROSILOG. The aim of this collaboration was to show the possibility to quickly implement a system into a FPGA, using SystemC 4 as the ...
Electronic Design

A Good Methodology Helps Design Teams Check RTL Code

Many of today's large, complex designs can contain thousands of lines of Verilog or VHDL code. Quite often, teams of engineers—with some members possibly situated in disparate locations worldwide—will ...
EDN

Control Synthesis Output with Combinatorial Logic in Procedural Code

While it is tempting to write RTL and let the synthesis tool take over, this isn’t the best way to get the results we want. In this article, we’ll learn how to create complex combinatorial code in ...
Electronic Design

Predictive-Analysis Tool Sniffs Out Gate-Level Problems In RTL Code

Thanks to a fast, built-in synthesis engine, Atrenta's SpyGlass 3.0 predictive-analysis tool detects very complex structural problems in register transfer level (RTL) code that would otherwise only ...