VHDL

1. VHDL stands for VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) Hardware Description Language. 2. In the mid-1980s the U.S. Department of Defense and the IEEE sponsored the development of this hardware description language with the goal to develop very high-speed integrated circuit. It has become now one of industrys standard languages used to describe digital systems. 3. Using VHDL, you can design, simulate, and synthesize anything from a simple combinational circuit to a complete microprocessor system on a chip. Basic form of VHDL Code: Every VHDL design description consists of at least one entity / architecture pair, or one entity with multiple architectures. The entity section is used to declare I/O ports of the circuit. The architecture portion describes the circuits behavior. A behavioral model is similar to a black box. Standardized design libraries are included before entity declaration.

Advantages: The key advantage of VHDL, when used for systems design, is that it allows the behavior of the required system to be described (modeled) and verified (simulated) before synthesis tools translate the design into real hardware (gates and wires). Another benefit is that VHDL allows the description of a concurrent system. VHDL is a dataflow language, unlike procedural computing languages such as BASIC, C, and assembly code, which all run sequentially, one instruction at a time. VHDL project is multipurpose. Being created once, a calculation block can be used in many other projects. VHDL project is portable. Being created for one element base, a computing device project can be ported on another element base, for example VLSI with various technologies. Design Examples of a Simple AND GATE in VHDL:

-- (this is a VHDL comment) -- import std_logic from the IEEE library library IEEE; use IEEE.std_logic_1164.all; -- this is the entity entity ANDGATE is port ( I1 : in std_logic; I2 : in std_logic; O : out std_logic); end entity ANDGATE; -- this is the architecture architecture RTL of ANDGATE is begin O <= I1 and I2; end architecture RTL;

CMOS Logic circuit

Complementary metaloxidesemiconductor (CMOS) is a technology for constructing integrated circuits. CMOS technology is used in microprocessors, microcontrollers, static RAM, and other digital logic circuits. CMOS technology is also used for several analog circuits such as image sensors (CMOS sensor), data converters, and highly integrated transceivers for many types of communication Two important characteristics of CMOS devices are high noise immunity and low static power consumption.