Aldec Design and Verification Blog Trending Articles Advanced Static Linting for FPGA Performance Optimization Scalable Cloud-based CI/CD HDL Verification Environment Navigating VUnit: A Practical Guide to Modifying Testing Approaches Speeding Up Simulation with VUnit for Parallel Testing Introduction to VUnit FPGA Design Verification in a Nutshell Versal ACAP Simulation Challenges All Categories Corporate DO-254 Compliance Embedded Solutions Emulation/Acceleration FPGA Design Functional Verification High Performance Computing Requirements Management SoC and ASIC Prototyping SoC Design and Validation Specialized Applications Advanced Static Linting for FPGA Performance Optimization How to Boost Design Speed and Efficiency Accelerate FPGA Design with Advanced Static Linting In modern high-speed FPGA design, raw performance isn’t enough. Engineers face increasing challenges in achieving higher clock frequencies, lower power consumption, and smaller silicon footprints... Tags:FPGA,Prototyping,FPGA Simulation,Design,Hardware,HDL,Linting,safety-critical,Simulation,STARC,Verification,Xilinx Like(0) Comments (0) Read more Scalable Cloud-based CI/CD HDL Verification Environment Enhance Your Verification Workflow with Azure, VUnit, and Riviera-PRO Verification is the cornerstone of digital design, ensuring high reliability and functional correctness of FPGA and SoC designs. By integrating Azure’s scalable cloud computing, the open-source unit testing capabilities of VUnit, and the high-performance simulation engine of Riviera-PRO,... Tags:Aceleration,Functional Verification,HDL,Riviera-PRO,Simulation,Verification,VHDL Like(0) Comments (0) Read more Navigating VUnit: A Practical Guide to Modifying Testing Approaches 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.... Tags:Aceleration,Functional Verification,HDL,Riviera-PRO,Simulation,Verification,VHDL Like(0) Comments (0) Read more Development of real-time SDR systems with Aldec HES 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.... Tags:Aceleration,FPGA,Hardware,HDL,Prototyping,Simulation,Xilinx,Design Like(8) Comments (7) Read more HW/SW Co-Simulation for SoC FPGA designs Aldec’s Co-Simulation Solution using QEMU and Riviera-PRO Heterogeneous System on Chip (SoC) devices like the Xilinx Zynq 7000 and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC combine a high-performance processing system (PS) with state-of-the-art programmable logic (PL).... Tags:Co-simulation,Embedded,FPGA,Hardware,HDL,Simulation,SoC,Validation,Verification,Verilog,VHDL,Xilinx Like(2) Comments (0) Read more The Power of PCIe in Performance-based FPGA World Understanding High speed serial data transfer In today's world, when the entire computing industry is talking about high-performance and high-speed applications using FPGAs, just what are the factors that can assure such performance and speed?... Tags:Aceleration,ASIC,Co-simulation,Documentation,Embedded,Emulation,FPGA,FPGA Simulation,Hardware,HDL,IP,Prototyping,Simulation,SoC,Validation,Verification,Xilinx Like(3) Comments (0) Read more Problems Accessing Registers? – See how UVM RAL can help. As a digital design or verification engineer you know that certain features or configurations of the device can be achieved by programming some registers to set values. For example, a 32-bit register can have several fields within it... Tags:ASIC,Debugging,FPGA,Simulation,SystemVerilog,UVM,Verification Like(2) Comments (0) Read more Verification Effectiveness with Riviera-PRO: SystemVerilog Randomized Layered Testbench Understanding SystemVerilog Layered Testbench In this blog, I will discuss randomized layered testbenches used in SystemVerilog. We need to understand why we need it, ... Tags:Riviera-PRO,ASIC,Assertions,Co-simulation,Coverage,Debugging,Design,Documentation,FPGA,HDL,IEEE,OS-VVM,Randomization,Simulation,standards,SystemVerilog,UVM,Verification,Verilog Like(4) Comments (0) Read more Do I really need a commercial simulator? A quick view of the benefits of a commercial simulator As an Applications Engineer I visit lots of potential customers, or talk to them at trade shows, who are doing FPGA designs but don’t own a commercial simulator. I ask them why that is. Most of the time it is budgetary restrictions. They don’t... Tags:Debugging,Design,Simulation,Verification Like(1) Comments (0) Read more SystemVerilog Functional Coverage in a Nutshell Use native SystemVerilog constructs as metrics for verification closure in Riviera-PRO Let’s say you have a block you need to verify. How do you know that the stimulus you are about to use is exhaustive enough and that you have covered the necessary scenarios/situations to prove it is working correctly?... Tags:Simulation,SystemVerilog,Verification Like(1) Comments (0) Read more
