Getting Started with FPGAs

GLOSSARY

application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)

   An integrated circuit that’s customized for a particular use, rather than a general use.

bidirectional

   Describes an FPGA pin that can both send and receive data, often in half-duplex communication.

blocking assignment

   An assignment that prevents the execution of the next statement until the current assignment is executed. The blocking assignment operator is = in Verilog and := in VHDL, but in VHDL you can only create blocking assignments on variables, not signals.

block RAM

   A common FPGA primitive used for larger pools of memory storage and retrieval.

Boolean algebra

   Equations where inputs and outputs are represented with true/false, or high/low, or 1/0 only.

buffer

   An electronic ...