SiliconANGLE

Architect Labs nabs $24M to speed up chip design projects with AI

Chip design startup Architect Labs Inc. launched today with $24 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. Kindred Ventures led the seed round. It was joined by Perplexity AI Inc. Chief ...
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[Verilog] Why does it work in simulation but break on real hardware? The terror of ignoring warnings [For beginners]

I heard this story from a student who just started their job. "The waveforms were perfect in simulation, so I ran logic synthesis. A huge number of warnings appeared, but I thought 'It's not an error, ...
Hacker

Getting Started Using Open Source FPGA Tools

In this post we look at some of the most popular open-source tools for FPGA design and verification. Traditionally, when we create an FPGA design we have to use proprietary software tools to simulate ...
IEEE

Best Practices for Compact Modeling in Verilog-A

Abstract: Verilog-A is the de facto standard language that the semiconductor industry uses to define compact models. Unfortunately, it is easy to write models poorly in Verilog-A, and this can lead to ...
electronicsforu

Icarus Verilog: Your First Step Into Digital Design

Learn how a free tool lets you build and test digital circuits on your computer and see how chips really work before making them. Icarus Verilog also called iVerilog is a software tool used in ...
VN Express

AI-assisted ‘vibe coding’ trend reshapes how Vietnam’s programmers build software

Many programmers are turning to AI to write codes with the vibe coding trend, but full trust in the technology is still a step too far for many. Vibe coding originally described an intuitive style of ...
Design-Reuse

Accelerating RTL Design with Agentic AI: A Multi-Agent LLM-Driven Approach

In today’s fast-paced silicon industry, hardware design is under constant pressure to innovate, iterate, and ship faster. Traditional Register Transfer Level (RTL) design processes—though foundational ...
IEEE

On Hardware Security Bug Code Fixes by Prompting Large Language Models

Abstract: Novel AI-based code-writing Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s Codex have demonstrated capabilities in many coding-adjacent domains. In this work, we consider how LLMs may be ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog?

Designers of electronic hardware describe the behavior and structure of system and circuit designs using hardware description languages (HDLs)—specialized programming languages commonly known as VHDL, ...