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Verification of Asynchronous FIFO Using System Verilog

FIFO (First In First Out) is a buffer that stores data in a way that data stored first comes out of the buffer first. Asynchronous FIFO is most widely used in the System-on-Chip (SoC) designs for data ...
Design-Reuse

Design Transition from Sync to Async: Design and Verification Challenges

Synchronous interfaces involve a single clock domain and are relatively easy to design. However, at times, it is advantageous and necessary to have an asynchronous interface between peripherals for ...
EDN

Building an FPGA FIFO without using logic resources

Today, FPGA designers are using these flexible devices to perform everything from simple glue logic tasks to implementing complicated system on a chip (SoC) functions. The efficiency and ease of ...
EDN

FIFO, handshake synchronizers a challenge for CDC analysis

Among the many verification challenges confronting system-on-chip designers these days, clock domain crossings (CDCs) rank near the top in difficulty. Two particularly troublesome CDC-related issues ...