Simulation Concepts and PLD-Based Designs

Programmable logic devices (PLDs) are used extensively in the research areas and even in the industrial applications to realize the complex designs due to programmability features. PLDs are used to prototype the ASIC SOCs due to the availability of the configurable logic blocks, multipliers, and DSP blocks. This chapter discusses about the PLD evolution, architecture of FPGA, and why to use FPGA, FPGA design guidelines and the logic realization using FPGAs. Even this chapter discusses about the simulation constructs and the different delays with the basic testbench.