无线RF接收器用于一系列应用，包括无线安全系统，工业监控，抄表和家庭自动化。在过去，半导体供应商主要使用模拟设计建立了这些接收器。如今，供应商正在转换到数字和混合信号设计，以降低功耗并简化与其他组件集成。
Engineers at Semtech are expanding their use of MathWorks tools for Model-Based Design to transition to a digital platform. For years, the engineers modeled and generated HDL code for filters with MATLAB®和过滤器设计HDL编码器™。On their most recent project, they used Simulink®and HDL Coder™to generate VHDL®对于整个设计。
“There is no advantage to writing VHDL by hand,” says Frantz Prianon, IC design engineer at Semtech. “With Simulink and HDL Coder, we have one model of the system. We simulate it, so we know it works. And we generate code from it, so we can use one model until the end of the project. This is an important capability, because we are sure that what we have implemented matches the design and that the design meets specifications.”
