EE497i -- Rapid System Prototyping

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• Founded in 1987, SEMATECH is a non-profit semiconductor manufacturing technology development consortium.  This link will take you to their National Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors page where you can find the complete 1997 Roadmap as well as the 1998 update and information about the ongoing `99 update.  The SEMITECH site also has a quite nice interactive web page which describes how a computer chip is made (worth checking out!)
• FPGAs, Artificial Intelligence, and Evolution -- what do they have in common?  Take this link to read a news article on the subject
• Design and Reuse -- "The world's largest catalog of IPs, Virtual Components, Software and
  Services for designing systems on chip" 

Rapid Prototyping Links (Commercial/Academic)

• RASSP (Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors) Home Page.
• ZyCAD Paradigm RP (software) - rapid prototyping products and services
• Rapid Prototyping Laboratory at Univ. of Kansas.
• Esprit-Rapid Protyping of DSP Systems. (Slow!!)

VHDL / Verilog Links

• A good VHDL Quick Reference - This Doulos VHDL web page offers a quick reference on VHDL syntax, expressions, identifiers, etc, etc.
• The VHDL Resource Page - this is a VHDL resource link page from the University of Cincinnati's Computer System's Design course. There's some really good stuff here - a MUST SEE!
• An Introductory VHDL Tutorial from Green Mountain Computing Systems
• FCIM VHDL tutorial
• Another introductory VHDL Tutorial. (Slow!!)
• A VHDL Syntax Reference Link:  This page provides templates for various VHDL constructs.

FPGA Vendor, CAD Tool, and Related Information Links

• Xilinx Home Page (FPGAs)
• Altera Home Page (CPLDs)
• Lattice Semiconductor Home Page (PLDs)
• Motorola FPGA.
• CADmazing Page Design Automation Links
• FPGA Related WWW Links (University of Idaho Site)
• VLSI information (also U. Idaho)
• Synopsis FPGA expressA demo version of this software is available at CEDCC.
• Really good PLD information

News and Miscellaneous

• Founded in 1987, SEMATECH is a non-profit semiconductor manufacturing technology development consortium.  This link will take you to their National Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors page where you can find the complete 1997 Roadmap as well as the 1998 update and information about the ongoing `99 update.  The SEMITECH site also has a quite nice interactive web page which describes how a computer chip is made (worth checking out!)
• FPGAs, Artificial Intelligence, and Evolution -- what do they have in common?  Take this link to read a news article on this subject
• Design and Reuse -- "The world's largest catalog of IPs, Virtual Components, Software and
  Services for designing systems on chip" 
• ALLIANCE TARGETS "SYSTEMS ON A CHIP" Thirty-six high-tech companies are joining forces to develop advanced semiconductors that single-handedly can manage jobs currently processed by up to a dozen different chips.  The alliance, which includes such companies as Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys Inc., Cirrus Logic, VLSI Technology, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics and Toshiba, will focus on creating compatible designs so that each company's components can be mixed and matched with others. "The system-on-a-chip era will change the way all electronic systems are designed," says a Dataquest analyst. "It will make possible all kinds of electronic gadgets we never dreamed up before." (Wall Street Journal 3 Sep 96 B6)
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