libv has a home
Some of my “useful bits” of library code have lived in libv.vhd for a while - I’ve split it off and licensed it with a CC0 license (which means the author disclaims copyright and offers no warranty). …
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VHDL.
Should VHDL be extended to allow the use of Unicode
I’m contributing to the VASG group which is working on coming up with what the next revision of VHDL should be able to do. On today’s conference call, the idea was mooted that VHDL could allow the use of …
Tool switches
@boldport asked: What are your #FPGA design space exploration techniques? which he expands upon: “Design space exploration” is the process of trying out different settings and design methods for achieving …
Inferred state machines in VHDL (vs 2-process-machines of all things!)
A few weeks ago I read a blog post by the illustrious MS researcher Prof. Satnam Singh. He writes about his Kiwi project which he describes as “[trying] to civilise hardware design” - as compared to the …
Reading image files with VHDL part 3
Having written a function to read a PGM image, how do we use it? Well, the testbench at the bottom of the pgm vhdl file has an example: variable i : pixel\_array\_ptr; -- Without the transpose function, we would have to …