Aldec Design and Verification Blog

In the two previous blogs, we introduced you to the world of VUnit, guided you through creating a project from scratch, and demonstrated how to run multi-threaded unit testing of multiple independent tests....

Effective simulation is essential in hardware development, as time and accuracy are critical factors that can determine the success or failure of a project....

In the realms of HDL code verification, where precision and efficiency are crucial, a great hero has emerged; VUnit. This open-source framework for VHDL/SystemVerilog has been making waves in the industry,...

FPGA Design Verification (Planning) in a Nutshell Before wading into this topic, I’d like to state why I felt compelled to write about FPGA design verification. I recently presented a very well attended three-part webinar series, during which many attendees asked for book recommendations....

The electronics industry is all about optimization, and always has been. For example, you might think of system on chip (SoC) as a relatively recent term, coined this century. However, many regard the silicon that appeared in digital watches in the 1970s as constituting a system on a chip, ...

Introduction This blog post continues on from  “Development of real-time SDR systems with Aldec HES” which was written by Mariusz Grabowski and recounted how the early development phases of a Software Defined Radio (SDR) were achieved using our HES platform....

During the development of a system on chip (SoC), hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping play distinct and essential roles.   ● Emulation is used to verify that a design meets its functional requirements, where the verification is performed by emulating the hardware and simulating (using a testbench) the environment in which it must perform....

As telecommunication technologies evolve there is an on-going drive for the development of high-performance systems for radio communications. Part of that evolution involves implementing components in software functions that had traditionally been implemented in hardware....

While immunization vaccines are rolling out at an impressive pace, and as society slowly reopens, our best defense against the Coronavirus continues to be early detection and rapid response (such as self-isolation)....

Tasked with finding life in the form of microorganisms, the rover Perseverance landed on Mars at about 04:00 EST on February 18, 2021. The rover has multiple sensors and cameras to collect as much data as possible and, due to the volume of live data being recorded and the long data transmission time from Mars to Earth, ...