The purpose of a circuit diagram is to convey the maximum amount of information in the most efficient fashion. One aspect of this is assigning meaningful names to wires; for example, naming a wire ...

Last month we put the ‘R’ into RTL by discussing registers and how to create them in Verilog and VHDL. We learned how to create resets, both synchronous and asynchronous, clock enables, and even…clock ...

I fear the topic of this column is poised to unleash a tsunami of controversy. My engineering accomplice Joe Farr says that this is one of those topics that, when presented to 10 different engineers, ...