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Project Management
The NASA ASIC Guide
Although a little dated in places, contains a lot of useful info.

FUSE Network
The First Users Action (FUSE) offers a set of training material to support the introduction of new technologies...

Go Fabless
Free die-size and cost estimation tools. Some good white papers

Association for Project Management
UK branch containing links to stuff relevant to general project management

DTI Electronics Design
The Electronics Design Network (EDN) is the successor to DTI's successful Electronics Design Programme which ended in March 2004...

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DSP
The Scientists and Engineers Guide to DSP
A free book on the subject.

Useful DSP
Useful DSP Software from Rice University.




Technology Modelling
ALF home page
Advanced Library Format (ALF) Home Page. Draft ALF spec available.

EDIF
One of the world's most widely used Electronic Design Interchange Formats

IEEE DASC SDF
IEEE DASC Standard Delay Format (SDF). Access to draft SDF standard.




FPGA
Xilinx
Xilinx home page.

Altera
Altera home page.





VHDL
Doulos'"KnowHow"
Useful technical information, models, guidelines, tips and downloads.

Accellera.org
Industry group focusing on identifying new standards, development of standards and formats, and promoting the adoption of new methodologies.

VASG
VHDL Analysis and Standardization Group (VASG). Draft of VHDL 2000 available.

VHDL reference material

Compact Summary of VHDL

Modeling with VHDL
Course notes on Modeling with VHDL

Logic Design with VHDL
Course notes on Logic Design with VHDL

VHDL Language Guide

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Verilog
Doulos'"KnowHow"
Useful technical information, models, guidelines, tips and downloads.

Accellera.org
Industry group focusing on identifying new standards, development of standards and formats, and promoting the adoption of new methodologies.

Verilog-2001 Information Page

Verilog FAQ

v2html
The verilog to HTML converter

SystemVerilog

Cliff's SNUG'00 1st Place Paper On Nonblocking Verilog Assignments




UNIX
UNIX intro

UNIX
The UNIX System Home Page

UNIX UNIX Commands and Utilities, Issue 4, Version 2 (click "See the PDF version on the web" link on the right, and register your details to read this comprehensive doc).




GNU
GNU Home
GNU Project homepage ("GNU's Not UNIX").

The GNU Awk User's Guide

GNU sed, a stream editor

GNU make

GNU Manuals




Perl
www.perl.com
Publisher O'Reilly Perl source - Perl development, Perl conferences, ...

www.perl.org
The Perl cross platform programming language homepage.

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SystemC
Open SystemC Initiative
Everything you want to know about SystemC.




Verification
Open Verification Library
Assertion based verification.

The Verification Guild
"for the verification professional" -- a good verification links page on the site too.




Formal Equivalence Checking
Synopsys FV material

Mentor FV Material

Using Formality
1999 paper - dated but useful in places.




DFT
The NASA ASIC Guide DFT overview

Synopsys DFT material

RASSP Test Technology Overview

A Chipcentre DFT Article
Good for high level overview.

Bennett's Associates

DFT Guidelines from Goytatek

TSMC Design Kit Test Generator Usage Document

Fault Coverage Guidelines from Goyatek
You will need to download the traditional chinese font for Acrobat Reader.




STA
Cadence STA material

Synopsys STA material

STA Guidelines from Goyatek




Crosstalk
Synopsys Primetime-SI
Related material

Fast Coupling Interactions in STA
An interesting paper

Research Problems in Statically Verifying the Timing Behaviour of Digital Circuits
More interesting stuff.

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Synthesis
TCL for EDA
Arbitrarily placed under synthesis, contains scripts and info on DFT, STA and verification too - worth a visit !

VHDL Synthesis Interoperability Working Group
Draft docs and ref docs available.

Verilog Synthesis Interoperability
Good RTL coding style ref paper on front page.

Various Synopsys Docs
DC tutorial, Module Compiler User Guide, RTL coding styles, General Guidelines, Synth Quick Reference.

Deepchip.com
Not just Synthesis! - mirror for ESNUGs




IO and Pads
LVDS Owners Manual
The National Semiconductor LVDS Owners Manual.




Scripts
Collected links to pages containing various scripts for IC Development - this does not mean Jaskay Technology recomends their use! It's up to you to vet them.

Deepchip downloads
Loads of useful stuff !

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