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FPGA Simulation Challenges

FPGA Debug, you can’t fix what you can’t see

by Ray Salemi on January 21, 2010

There’s nothing like referring to another blog posting that you agree with 100%. The GateRocket technology mentioned here is very cool.  It synthesizes the design into your FPGA target and allows you to run your testbench on the actual hardware. FPGA Debug, you can’t fix what you can’t see.

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Norway spiral video: Mystery solved

by Ray Salemi on December 12, 2009

It seems to me that this Russian rocket test failure was the result of insufficient FPGA Simulation:

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Robot Baseball Players to Necessitate Man’s Fusion with Rhinoceros – Robot baseball – Gizmodo

by Ray Salemi on July 24, 2009

One has to wonder how to simulate this system.  One robot pitches the ball, the other hits it. Robot Baseball Players to Necessitate Man’s Fusion with Rhinoceros – Robot baseball – Gizmodo. The simulation probably uses MatLab or SystemVision.

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Verifying FPGA designs: Simulate, emulate, or hope for the best? – 2/19/2009 – EDN

by Ray Salemi on February 19, 2009

This is  nice survey article from Ron Wilson at EDN on FPGA Simulation and Emulation.  Ron talks about using simulation to avoid obvious problems, but also taking advantage of the flexibility of FPGAs. Verifying FPGA designs: Simulate, emulate, or hope for the best? – 2/19/2009 – EDN.

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