Introduction It’s often desired to package an piece of FPGA logic in a post-synthesis (netlist) format for later use in another project. IP core vendors often deliver their products as netlists, partly to protect themselves from unauthorized copying and use, and partly to ensure that possible bugs in the end-user’s synthesizer don’t influence the product [...]
Introduction Ask an VLSI engineer if the Verilog “initial” keyword is legit for synthesis, and flames of fury will go your way. However in the FPGA world, it’s a portable way to assign registers and array with the initial (and possibly constant) values immediately after configuration. The main argument against this practice is that a [...]
Introduction I purchased a HiTech Global 3-Port USB 3.0 SuperSpeed FMC Module (also known as USB3 FMC), which is an FPGA Mezzanine Card, primarily based upon TI’s SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Transceiver, TUSB1310A. Even though this board works fine at the end of the day, my experience with it was full with surprises, not all of [...]
