Adopting VHDL for PLD design and simulation

As your designs become more complex, it becomes more efficient to use tools that allow you to design at a higher level of abstraction. Hardware-description languages, such as VHDL, are a natural next step for tackling large designs.

Time-to-market, vendor-flexibility, and design-complexity requirements have caused electrical engineers to adopt VHDL. One benefit of using VHDL for hardware design is design abstraction. Logic design using an HDL such as VHDL improves productivity by allowing you to work with logic operations and behavior rather than with the traditional approach of drawing circuit diagrams of logic gates and wires. Using VHDL also results in improved documentation and quality ...Another benefit of using VHDL is design portability...Simulation is another benefit of using VHDL. Unlike traditional Boolean languages, VHDL is a naturally simulatable language...A state-machine description is one of the most appropriate applications of VHDL for hardware design... VHDL is a powerful test-vector-generation and output-verification language.  

Edupage

Currently, the standard for voice networks is "five nines of reliability" -- that's 99.9999% uptime. But private data networks are only about 94% reliable, carrier data networks are about 91% reliable and the public Internet is only about 61% reliable

Internet fuels economic growth, ...

The Internet and information technology are fueling U.S. economic growth to a far greater degree than once thought, the Commerce Department reported this week.

"Technology is reshaping our economy," Daley said in releasing the study, which credits the Internet and the rise of electronic commerce with contributing to better-than-expected economic performance over the past several years. The report forecasts that by 2002 the Internet may account for more than $300 billion worth of commerce between businesses.

The Wolf at the Door

Technology and implementation issues often crowd out all others when companies construct their web strategies...   Super-Professional-No-Crap Consulting (SPNCC) Can Help Your Company to: ... raise venture capital from anonymous South American sources! leverage Y2K confusion to pad executive Swiss bank accounts! learn the innermost secrets of the biggest spammers! sponge free IP bandwidth from clueless Federal laboratories! ...

Sympathy for the Devil?

"What do you think the devil's going to look like if he's around?  . . . He will be attractive. He'll be nice and helpful. He'll get a job where he influences a great, God-fearing nation. He'll never do an evil thing. He'll never deliberately hurt a living thing. He'll just-bit by little bit-lower our standards where they're important. . . . Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny little bit."...   Now, I (Tyler Sperry) am not here to write one of those "Bill Gates is Satan!" screeds. Admittedly, such things are not beyond me, but for our purposes here, a personal attack would be beside the point. ...Our goal is a better understanding of how-or if-WinCE matches the requirements of embedded software development.With that disclaimer in place, it's worth noting that a consideration of the historical record of Bill Gates and Microsoft is a valid starting point for our examination of WinCE. Any time you consider a new business relationship, the track record of your potential partner is one of the initial points of concern. In the case of Gates' and Microsoft's corporate behavior, there is a significant pattern. While Gates was a student at Harvard University, we are told, he majored in poker. Consider the skills required of a good poker player. You must be able to mislead your competition ...