This month's story comes from Eric Jonas, an engineer at MIT. Eric writes:
"I can't believe I've been working with FPGAs (and using as many GPL'd tools as I can find) for four years and not discovered your project. It's amazing, and seems like it'll be far superior to the crappy VHDL models that vendors are providing.
I'm using your DDR2 model right now, and finding all manner of bugs in my memory controller that I didn't find with the single VHDL model I found (from Hynix)...
Thanks again for the help, and for the amazing high-quality models."
Do you have an experience with board or system level verification you would like to share? If so, please send it to the email address at the bottom of this page.
The following is a list of 35 updates to the Free Model Foundry website for the month of January 2007.
Please note we are continuing to add Verilog models to the library.
There are now models and timing files covering over 10,250 part numbers on the FMF website.
New Blog Articles:
Model Additions and Updates:
The following models have either been added or updated in the released libraries:
eclps:
flash:
ram:
Separate VHDL and Verilog model list pages reflect these updates.
For full details on FMF modeling practices and how to use models in your verification work, you may purchase "ASIC & FPGA Verification, A guide to Component Modeling" by Richard Munden, available from Amazon.com.
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Have a great February
Contact Richard Munden: munden@freemodelfoundry.com