VHDL Practice Exam

VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) refers to the hardware description language which is used to not only model but also simulate integrated circuits, FPGAs, and ASICs as well as other digital systems. The language is able to describe the behavior and structure of the electronic circuits but at different abstraction levels, starting from high-level functional models to low-level gate-level designs. VHDL is used in EDA (electronic design automation) tools for development and design of electronic circuits. The language supports testing and debugging of hardware designs before physical implementation.

Certification in VHDL verifies your skills and knowledge in designing, simulating and implementing digital circuits by using the VHDL. The certification assess you in VHDL syntax, concepts, simulation techniques, and design.
Why is VHDL certification important?

• The certification validates your skills and knowledge of VHDL.
  
• Shows your skills in designing and simulating digital circuits.
• Increases your employability in FPGA design.
• Validates your expertise in ASIC designs.
• Provides you a competitive edge in semiconductor companies.
• Attests to your credibility for hardware projects.
• Makes you stand out in competitive EDA job markets.
  

Who should take the VHDL Exam?

• FPGA Designers
• ASIC Design Engineers
• Embedded Systems Engineers
• Hardware Verification Engineers
• Digital Design Engineers
• Electronics Engineers
• Research and Development Engineers in Semiconductors

Skills Evaluated

Candidates taking the certification exam on the VHDL is evaluated for the following skills:

• VHDL syntax and semantics.
• Develop testbenches.
• Combinational and sequential circuit design.
• State machines .
• Debugging VHDL.
• FPGA and ASIC design.
• EDA tools
  

VHDL Certification Course Outline
The course outline for VHDL certification is as below -

• Overview and history of VHDL.
• Advantages of using VHDL in hardware design.

• Data types and objects (signals, variables, constants).
• Operators and expressions.
• Libraries and packages.

• Entity and architecture declarations.
• Concurrent and sequential statements.

• Multiplexers, encoders, and decoders.
• Adders, subtractors, and arithmetic circuits.

• Flip-flops, registers, and counters.
• Finite State Machines (FSM).

• Writing testbenches for functional verification.
• Debugging techniques and waveforms analysis.

• FPGA implementation flow.
• Constraints and optimization techniques.

• Generics and configurations.
• Packages and subprograms.
• Timing and synchronization issues.