This tutorial shows you how to create the hardware equivalent of “Hello World”: a blinking LED. This is a simple exercise to get you started using the Intel® Quartus® software for FPGA development.

Sometimes good ideas take a while to catch on in engineering practice. The use of in-line assertions to document assumptions and check for problems in RTL code is one such idea. Long ago proposed for ...

We were always envious of Star Trek, for its computers. No programming needed. Just tell the computer what you want and it does it. Of course, HAL-9000 had the same interface and that didn’t work out ...

A priority interrupt controller is a hardware designed chip which acts as an overall system manager to efficiently handle the multiple interrupts that tend to occur from the varied number of ...

Programming an FPGA with Verilog looks a lot like programming. But it isn’t, at least not in the traditional sense. There have been several systems that aim to take C code and convert it into a ...

Adders are one of the widely used digital components in digital integrated circuit design. In this paper, various adder structures can be used to execute addition such as serial and parallel ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Not many software products are designed to make things more complicated, but an upcoming Verilog "source code obfuscator" from software engineering firm Semantic Designs does just ...

The next-generation version of the Verilog language has been approved as a standard by the Accellera organisationCalled SystemVerilog, the language blends Verilog, C/C++ and an assertion capability ...