Monday, March 30, 2009

An aerospace company from India

I didn't even imagine that there is a private aerospace company, which manufactures aircrafts in India. To my surprise, it is there. The company is Taneja Aerospace and Aviation Ltd.

http://www.taal.co.in/

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Did You Know ?

In VHDL the following statements are one and the same.

wait until clk'event and clk = 1;
wait on clk until clk = 1;

I have encountered this wait on and wait until combination recently and found it interesting.

we could use two different signals in the wait on and wait until part as depicted below.

wait on clk until reset_n = 1;

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Semiconductor Glossary

http://www.semiconductorglossary.com/

This website has more useful links at the left bottom of the page in addition to the Semiconductor Glossary.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD)

This website is supported by NASA and dedicated for Military and Aerospace domain white papers. All the white papers are freely downloadable.

http://nepp.nasa.gov/mapld_2008/

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

DSP Directory

EDN, an electronics design magazine maintaining a list of DSPs based on their application and vendor.

http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=DSP&year=2009&referalid=96&industryid=48982

Archive of the popular VLSI websites & Blogs

Websites
http://www.vlsi-world.com/
http://www.asic-world.com/
http://www.asichowto.com/
http://www.fpgasimulation.com/
http://www.edn.com/fpgagurus/
http://www.freemodelfoundry.com/

Blogs
http://only-vlsi.blogspot.com/
http://chipverification.blogspot.com/
http://vlsiprojects.blogspot.com/
http://vlsifaq.blogspot.com/

I welcome the readers input to add more or delete the listed one.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Microelectronics Design Center

I have come across this web page when searching for a VHDL type conversion operation and found that it has good amout of HDL resources.

http://dz.ee.ethz.ch/support/ic/hdl/vhdlsources.en.html