EDN

Building an FPGA FIFO without using logic resources

Today, FPGA designers are using these flexible devices to perform everything from simple glue logic tasks to implementing complicated system on a chip (SoC) functions. The efficiency and ease of ...
TechRepublic

Verification of Asynchronous FIFO Using System Verilog

FIFO (First In First Out) is a buffer that stores data in a way that data stored first comes out of the buffer first. Asynchronous FIFO is most widely used in the System-on-Chip (SoC) designs for data ...
EDN

RTL coding architecture affects power estimation & analysis

A well thought out design flow for SoCs ensures that the resulting device meets the requirement of low power dissipation. To meet these goals at the device level, individual modules (or components of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Microarchitecture Design For Low Power

As designs move to finFET process nodes, dynamic power reduction has become a requirement. Designers have to eliminate or minimize all sources of redundant switching activity in order to reduce ...
Design-Reuse

Design Transition from Sync to Async: Design and Verification Challenges

Synchronous interfaces involve a single clock domain and are relatively easy to design. However, at times, it is advantageous and necessary to have an asynchronous interface between peripherals for ...
Design-Reuse

Making SPI-4.2 Implementations More Efficient: Part 1

The SPI-4.2 interface has quickly achieved the industry-wide recognition and is highly accepted as standard high-speed interface in the networking chip space. However, creating an efficient SPI-4.2 ...