VHDL in Alliance – Behavioral Simulations

Hello everyone and welcome to the second tutorial on the Alliance VLSI package! Here we will look at how we can build a digital system using a behavioral model and simulate the VHDL code we write. I hope you have read the previous tutorial on genpat. We will need what ever we learn there to test the code we write in this tutorial. I also assume that you are familiar with VHDL. Alright then. Lets begin!

VHDL in Alliance – A Different Start!

Welcome back! Its time to start off with Digital Design in VHDL using the Alliance package available in Fedora Electronic Lab. Now most tutorials would start of with the simulator itself. I have however, chosen a different start – The stimulus. The reason for this it that we need a stimulus for every simulation that we run in future tutorials and Alliance uses a separate file format for this.