Resources

A curated collection of official resources for VLSI Design and Verification engineers. Conference papers, specifications, and vendor documentation.

Conference Papers & Publications

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DVCon Papers

Design and Verification Conference papers on UVM, SystemVerilog, formal verification, and methodology.

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DAC Papers

Design Automation Conference - the premier EDA conference covering design, verification, and tools.

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SNUG Papers

Synopsys Users Group conference papers on synthesis, simulation, and verification methodologies.

Standards & Specifications

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IEEE Standards

Official IEEE standards for SystemVerilog (1800), UVM (1800.2), VHDL (1076), and PSL (1850).

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PCIe Specifications

PCI Express base specifications and related protocol documents from PCI-SIG.

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AMBA Specifications

ARM AMBA protocol specifications - AXI, AHB, APB, CHI, and ACE.

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Accellera Standards

UVM, SystemC, IP-XACT, and Portable Stimulus standards from Accellera.

Computer Architecture

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ETH Zurich - Computer Architecture

Prof. Onur Mutlu's comprehensive computer architecture course materials and lectures.

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RISC-V International

Official RISC-V ISA specifications and technical documentation.

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arXiv Papers

Open-access research papers on processor architecture, RISC-V verification, and microarchitecture.

AI & LLMs for Hardware Design

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Research Papers

Academic research on using Large Language Models for RTL generation and verification.

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Prompt Engineering

Official documentation on prompt engineering from AI providers.

Open Source Tools

Verilator

Fast, open-source Verilog/SystemVerilog simulator and lint tool.

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Yosys

Open-source synthesis suite for Verilog RTL synthesis.

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cocotb

Python-based testbench framework for verifying VHDL and Verilog RTL.


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