A VHDL implementation of an on-board ACF application targeting FPGAs



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A VHDL Implementation of an On-board ACF Application Targeting

VHDL (VHSIC-HDL, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language used in electronic design automation to describe digital and mixed-signal systems such as field-programmable gate arrays and integrated circuits.

VHDL is Still Being Used by Avionics Companies as they Target their Designs(Usually Low Complex) into FPGAs and CLPDs. As there is no real need to migrate the Legacy design to OOP languages from VHDL, Since the Synthesis tool Continue to Support VHDL.

VHDL and Verilog are considered general-purpose digital design languages, while SystemVerilog represents an enhanced version of Verilog. VHDL is a rich and strongly typed language, deterministic and more verbose than Verilog. As a result, designs written in VHDL are considered self-documenting.

C is a software programming language (as assembly is), VHDL/Verilog are hardware description languages. They are not meant for the same purpose. C is translated into assembly code (in its binary form, i.e., machine language) when compiled. On the other hand, a HDL is synthesized to hardware

A Brief History Of VHDL. VHDL (which stands for VHSIC Hardware Description Language) was developed in the early 1980s as a spin-off of a high-speed integrated circuit research project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.

VHDL is generally used to write text models that describe a logic circuit. Such a model is processed by a synthesis program, only if it is part of the logic design. A simulation program is used to test the logic design using simulation models to represent the logic circuits that interface to the design. This collection of simulation models is commonly called a testbench.

A VHDL simulator is typically an event-driven simulator.[12] This means that each transaction is added to an event queue for a specific scheduled time. E.g. if a signal assignment should occur after 1 nanosecond, the event is added to the queue for time +1ns. Zero delay is also allowed, but still needs to be scheduled: for these cases Delta delay is used, which represent an infinitely small time step. The simulation alters between two modes: statement execution, where triggered statements are evaluated, and event processing, where events in the queue are processed.

VHDL has constructs to handle the parallelism inherent in hardware designs, but these constructs (processes) differ in syntax from the parallel constructs in Ada (tasks). Like Ada, VHDL is strongly typed and is not case sensitive. In order to directly represent operations which are common in hardware, there are many features of VHDL which are not found in Ada, such as an extended set of Boolean operators including nand and nor.

VHDL has file input and output capabilities, and can be used as a general-purpose language for text processing, but files are more commonly used by a simulation testbench for stimulus or verification data. There are some VHDL compilers which build executable binaries. In this case, it might be possible to use VHDL to write a testbench to verify the functionality of the design using files on the host computer to define stimuli, to interact with the user, and to compare results with those expected. However, most designers leave this job to the simulator.

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