Quickly learn what the difference is between PMOS and NMOS transistors in their structure and operation, and how CMOS works with the two in combination. Siliwiz, a free, browser-based, ASIC layout ...

The Riviera 2005.08 ASIC, FPGA simulator tool provides VHDL and Verilog Linting and support for 64-bit Linux operating systems. The tool features a redesigned simulation engine that reduces simulation ...

Digital systems need clocks. Today’s designs require more from clocking schemes than ever before, and it’s likely this trend will continue. Increasing power constraints have resulted in finer-grained ...

Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan observed, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” Similarly, we can get a feeling for where our industry is going by attending to the flow of thought ...

Application-specific ICs (ASICs) have the benefit of integrating a maximum amount of circuitry for a particular function on a single IC. This saves board space and cost. However, ASICs also have ...