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Gene Breniman's Embedded Systems Blog
Gene Breniman is a founder of Young Embedded Systems, a firm specializing in low-cost test and measurement systems. Gene has over 30 years experience in design and development of hardware and software for embedded systems. He has worked in a variety of fields, including avionics, life sciences and automatic test equipment engineering.
VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench
In an earlier article I walked through the VHDL coding of a simple design. In this article I will continue the process and create a test bench module to test the earlier design. The Xilinx ISE envir...
posted by Gene Breniman on Oct 30 2007 under VHDL programming
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VHDL tutorial
When I was first introduced to "Programmable Logic" several years ago, it was an answer to many of the challenges that I was struggling with. Though the parts were primitive by today's stan... posted by Gene Breniman on Oct 4 2007 under VHDL programming
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VHDL tutorial - combining clocked and sequential logic
In an earlier article on VHDL programming ("VHDL tutorial" and "VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench", I described a design for providing a programmable clock divider for a ADC seque... posted by Gene Breniman on Mar 3 2008 under VHDL programming
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Bringing up Baby - product development thoughts
Things have just started to get exciting. After months of defining, specifying and designing my latest product, I finally have semi-functional prototypes. After a few side steps during the building ... posted by Gene Breniman on Aug 15 2008 under Software Development | Hardware Development
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Small business tackling big jobs.
Greetings and a Happy New Year to all!I have been extremely busy the last few months tackling a small job that turned into a big job. A few months ago, while working on starting my own company and pr... posted by Gene Breniman on Jan 6 2008 under Business | Consulting
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VHDL tutorial - Creating a hierarchical design
In earlier blog entries I introduced some of the basic VHDL concepts. First, developing a function ('VHDL tutorial') and later verifying and refining it ('VHDL tutorial - part 2 - Testbench' and 'VHDL... posted by Gene Breniman on May 22 2008 under VHDL programming
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Great men in my life.
In my first post on this site (Will work for Tools!), I mentioned how my Grandfather had inspired me to become an Engineer. Today, I write in sadness about the loss of three men, all this year, and ... posted by Gene Breniman on Nov 9 2007 under
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Will work for tools!
I have always believed that tools are necessary to the creative process. This is something I learned early in life and it's a lesson that has stuck with me to this day. When I was 7 years old, I made... posted by Gene Breniman on Sep 23 2007 under Tools
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No, I'm not retired!
For many years now, I have been looking for the right opportunity to strike out on my own. At first I had a few ideas that looked promising, but I was not in a position to leave my full-time employme... posted by Gene Breniman on Sep 26 2007 under
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Software Prototyping
In my recent blog entry on the product development process (way down, near the end of the entry), I wrote the following:"I continue these sorts of tests, building more and more complexity, until ... posted by Gene Breniman on Aug 19 2008 under Software Development | Hardware Development
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