Using a Hardware Description Language to Teach Top-Down Design Methodology for IC Design

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Using a hardware description language to teach top-down design methodology for IC design

This paper described how a hardware description language can be used to give students experience in top-down IC design and achieve a reasonably demanding hardware realisation within an acceptable time-scale.

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