HDL Designer Series

Course Highlights

You will learn how to

• Set up libraries to hold your designs
• Model hierarchy and connectivity using block diagrams and IBD
• Model finite state machines with state diagrams
• Model sequential processes with flow charts
• Model combinatorial circuits with truth tables
• Create and edit component symbols
• Generate HDL for your graphical/textual design
• Compile your design for simulation
• Simulate your design using ModelSim®
• Animate and debug your design
• Reuse components
• Convert existing HDL designs into graphical/textual HDL Designer Series designs
• Create test benches
• Manage your design using version management
• Ensure your design meets required design rules using DesignChecker
• Interface with a wide range of downstream tools (compilers, simulators, and synthesis tools)
• Trace requirement references between ReqTracerTM and HDL Designer

Hands-on labs

• Import existing HDL code into HDL Designer
• Create block diagrams, state machines, truth tables, and flow charts
• Create control logic using state machines
• Generate HDL for your design
• Create a test bench using a flow chart to provide stimulus
• Compile and simulate your design
• Troubleshoot your design using animation
• Place existing design elements into new designs
• Implement Altera MegaWizard and Xilinx CoreGen components in your design
• Import existing HDL design hierarchy into HDL Designer for visualization
• Run DesginChecker and analyze results
• Generate HTML documentation