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 ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

USB-To-UART/FIFO Interface IC Eyes Next-Generation Peripheral Design

Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany: Using the recent Embedded World show as its platform, Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) launched the FT232H USB2.0 Hi-Speed device. The single-channel ...
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 ...