Aldec Design and Verification Blog

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,...

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,...

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....

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all did many logic optimization exercises back in college....

As the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) continues to gain momentum, the growing number of RISC-V design solutions, and their flexibility, creates a problem when choosing the most reliable and robust solution from a number of contenders....

Will the world be a better place in which to live by having autonomous cars driving around us? Or would it be unsafe and scary? Maybe someone was asking such a question even when the first steam-powered automobile capable...

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)....

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?...