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You Can (and Should) Write Recursive RTL Code

Greg Stitt and Christopher Crary / Recursion, RTL Code / February 21, 2024

Recursion, a fundamental concept in both software engineering and mathematics, offers powerful problem-solving capabilities by defining a problem in terms of itself. Yet, within the realm of register-transfer level (RTL) code, its potential remains largely untapped. Despite its numerous advantages, recursion is often dismissed or deemed impossible in RTL coding circles. A simple online search […]

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Crafting Clean Reset Logic

Greg Stitt and Wesley Piard / Reset, RTL Code / February 4, 2024

Despite reset logic not being the most exciting topic, I’ve been excited to write this article for some time, especially since this is one of the topics I never managed to fit into my lectures at UF. I’m excited because this post will shed light on the fact that there are widespread RTL coding styles

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Timing Optimization Tutorial

Greg Stitt / RTL Code, Timing / January 28, 2024

If you only studied digital design in college, there’s a good chance you don’t have much experience with timing analysis, optimization, and closure. Most digital-design classes, especially at the undergraduate level, primarily focus on creating correct circuits without too much focus on achieving specific clock frequencies. Students then graduate and enter industry where they discover

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VHDL and SystemVerilog Tutorials

Greg Stitt / 4 Comments / RTL Code / January 21, 2024

If you are learning RTL coding, looking for a useful language reference, or if you just want to see my thoughts on how to write RTL code, I would highly recommend my following two GitHub repositories: Each tutorial is accompanied by detailed README files, offering insights into the recommended study order and highlighting key points

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Design the Circuit, then Write the Code

Greg Stitt / 3 Comments / RTL Code / January 17, 2024

Greg Stitt. Design the Circuit, then Write the Code. StittHub (Jan. 2024). https://stitt-hub.com/design-the-circuit-then-write-the-code/. Target audience: beginning/intermediate hardware designers, junior/senior engineering undergraduates There is one saying my former students probably got tired of me saying: “design the circuit, then write the code.” In other words, you should know what you want your synthesized circuit to look

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