Simulations and prototyping have been a very important part of the electronics industry since a very long time. In recent years, FPGA’s have become increasingly important and have found their way into ...
The CoValidator VHDL simulator and coverage analyzer, the first component of Impulse's forthcoming CoDeveloper hardware/software design suite, enables users to quickly identify specific lines of code ...
Okay, now we’re beginning to feel a bit like [Alice]. This tutorial shows you how to simulate VHDL code. This code is intended to run on an FPGA and includes a software-only version of the AVR 8-bit ...
An earlier Idea For Design (“Hardware-Based LED Blinking Control Eliminates Software Overhead,” Sept. 27, 2007, p. 52) described a very interesting way to offload the software overhead required for a ...
The 8255A Programmable Peripheral Interface (PPI) implements a general-purpose I/O interface to connect peripheral equipment to a microcomputer system bus. The core’s functional configuration is ...