Welcome to the first installment of our two-part series on preventing race conditions with clocking blocks in SystemVerilog. In the realm of digital design and verification, precise timing is paramount. Ensuring that signals change at the right moments, relative to clock edges, is crucial to the proper operation of digital systems. SystemVerilog, a versatile hardware…
Designing integrated circuits is a complex process that requires a great deal of planning and attention to detail. Most of the design process for integrated circuits starts with creating a schematic. This is a simple circuit diagram showing the electrical connections between the components. Once the schematic is complete, it is used to create a…
Welcome to our blog on RTL Design & Verification! In the semiconductor industry, RTL (register-transfer level) design and verification are crucial steps in integrated circuits (ICs) design. RTL design involves describing the behavior of an IC using a hardware description language (HDL) such as Verilog or VHDL, while RTL verification involves ensuring that the IC…
By pursuing a VLSI internship in 2023, you’ll gain valuable project experience, learn the latest process and deliverable techniques, get exposed to new technologies, and be better equipped for your job search. In this article, we’ll explore the top 10 benefits of doing a VLSI internship in 2023. 1. Hands-on experience in VLSI projects: You’ll…
What is System Verilog? System Verilog is a hardware description and verification language developed as an extension of the Verilog language in the early 2000s. – It was designed to address the growing complexity of digital systems and the need for more advanced verification capabilities. – In 2005, the Accellera organization standardized System Verilog as…
Today, VLSI or Very Large Scale Integration professionals are in high demand. VLSI holds good prospects for those pursuing a career in electronics. It is a solid choice for students of Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) to jumpstart their careers and advance rapidly for growth. VLSI provides enormous job opportunities across the globe, and its…
VLSI or Very Large Scale Integration is a process where integrated circuits are fabricated on a single chip. This technology is used in various electronic devices like microprocessors, FPGAs, and ASICs. Designing VLSI chips requires sophisticated tools and techniques. So if you want to make a career in this field, it is very important to…
A SystemVerilog queue is a First In First Out scheme which can have a variable size to store elements of the same data type. It is similar to a one-dimensional unpacked array that grows and shrinks automatically. They can also be manipulated by indexing, concatenation, and slicing operators.
Transaction Level Modeling is a modeling style for building highly abstract models of components and systems. In this scheme, data is represented as transactions (class objects that contain random, protocol-specific information) that flow in and out of different components via special ports called TLM interfaces.
A dynamic array is one dimension of an unpacked array whose size can be set or changed at run-time. Dynamic array is Declared using an empty word subscript [ ]. The space for a dynamic array doesn’t exist until the array is explicitly created at run-time, space is allocated when new[number] is called. the number…