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Static Timing Analysis for Nanometer Designs: A Practical Approach

J. Bhasker 2009

iming, timing, timing! That is the main concern of a digital designer charged with designing a semiconductor chip. What is it, how is it T described, and how does one verify it? The design team of a large digital design may spend months architecting and iterating the design to achieve the required timing target. Besides functional verification, the t- ing closure is the major milestone which dictates when a chip can be - leased to the semiconductor foundry for fabrication. This book...


Electronic Design Automation: Synthesis, Verification, and Test (Systems on Silicon)

2009

This book provides broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire EDA flow. EDA/VLSI practitioners and researchers in need of fluency in an "adjacent" field will find this an invaluable reference to the basic EDA concepts, principles, data structures, algorithms, and architectures for the design, verification, and test of VLSI circuits. Anyone who needs to learn the concepts, principles, data structures, algorithms, and architectures of the EDA flow will benefit from this book.


FPGA Simulation: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide

Ray Salemi 2009

FPGA Simulation: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide shows FPGA design engineers how to avoid long lab debug sessions by simulating with SystemVerilog. The book helps engineers to have never simulated their designs before by bringing them through seven steps that can be added incrementally to a design flow. Engineers start with code coverage as the first step. Succeeding steps introduce test planning, assertions, and SystemVerilog simuation techniques. By the end of the process engineers who...


The Verilog® Hardware Description Language

Donald Thomas 2008

XV From the Old to the New xvii Acknowledgments xx| Verilog A Tutorial Introduction Getting Started 2 A Structural Description 2 Simulating the binaryToESeg Driver 4 Creating Ports For the Module 7 Creating a Testbench For a Module 8 Behavioral Modeling of Combinational Circuits 11 Procedural Models 12 Rules for Synthesizing Combinational Circuits 13 Procedural Modeling of Clocked Sequential Circuits 14 Modeling Finite State Machines 15 Rules for Synthesizing Sequential Systems 18...


Step-by-step Functional Verification with SystemVerilog and OVM

Sasan Iman 2008

NOTE: Examples in this book can be downloaded from SiMantis Inc. website.

BACK-COVER QUOTES:

"This detailed, step-by-step guide provides a thorough introduction to SystemVerilog and the Open Verification Methodology (OVM). With many examples and clear descriptions, it should be helpful to anyone involved in IC functional verification."

Richard Goering, Editor-in-Chief , SCDsource

 

 "Dr. Iman brings together all the essential elements to understand the use and application of OVM. Those...


Digital Design and Verilog HDL Fundamentals

Joseph Cavanagh 2008

Comprehensive and self contained, this tutorial covers the design of a plethora of combinational and sequential logic circuits using conventional logic design and Verilog HDL. Number systems and number representations are presented along with various binary codes. Several advanced topics are covered, including functional decomposition and iterative networks. A variety of examples are provided for combinational and sequential logic, computer arithmetic, and advanced topics such as Hamming...


SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features

Chris Spear 2008

The updated second edition of this book provides practical information for hardware and software engineers using the SystemVerilog language to verify electronic designs. The author explains methodology concepts for constructing testbenches that are modular and reusable. The book includes extensive coverage of the SystemVerilog 3.1a constructs such as classes, program blocks, randomization, assertions, and functional coverage. This second edition contains a new chapter that covers programs...


Digital System Designs and Practices: Using Verilog HDL and FPGAs

Ming-Bo Lin 2008

System-on-a-chip (SoC) has become an essential technique to lower product costs and maximize power efficiency, particularly as the mobility and size requirements of electronics continues to grow. It has therefore become increasingly important for electrical engineers to develop a strong understanding of the key stages of hardware description language (HDL) design flow based on cell-based libraries or field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. Honed and revised through years of classroom...


FPGA Prototyping By Verilog Examples: Xilinx Spartan-3 Version

Pong P. Chu 2008

FPGA Prototyping Using Verilog Examples will provide you with a hands-on introduction to Verilog synthesis and FPGA programming through a "learn by doing" approach. By following the clear, easy-to-understand templates for code development and the numerous practical examples, you can quickly develop and simulate a sophisticated digital circuit, realize it on a prototyping device, and verify the operation of its physical implementation. This introductory text that will provide you with a solid...


Hardware Verification With SystemVerilog: An Object-oriented Framework

Mike Mintz 2007

Verification is increasingly complex, and SystemVerilog is one of the languages that the verification community is turning to. However, no language by itself can guarantee success without proper techniques. Object-oriented programming (OOP), with its focus on managing complexity, is ideally suited to this task.

With this handbook―the first to focus on applying OOP to SystemVerilog―we’ll show how to manage complexity by using layers of abstraction and base classes. By adapting these...