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—From the foreword by Paul Menchini, Menchini & Associates
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Since the publication of the first edition of The Designer's Guide to VHDL in 1996, digital electronic systems have increased exponentially in their complexity, product lifetimes have dramatically shrunk, and reliability requirements have shot through the roof. As a result more and more designers have turned to VHDL to help them dramatically improve productivity as well as the quality of their designs.
VHDL, the IEEE standard hardware description language for describing digital electronic systems, allows engineers to describe the structure and specify the function of a digital system as well as simulate and test it before manufacturing. In addition, designers use VHDL to synthesize a more detailed structure of the design, freeing them to concentrate on more strategic design decisions and reduce time to market. Adopted by designers around the world, the VHDL family of standards have recently been revised to address a range of issues, including portability across synthesis tools.
This best-selling comprehensive tutorial for the language and authoritative reference on its use in hardware design at all levels--from system to gates--has been revised to reflect the new IEEE standard, VHDL-2001. Peter Ashenden, a member of the IEEE VHDL standards committee, presents the entire description language and builds a modeling methodology based on successful software engineering techniques. Reviewers on Amazon.com have consistently rated the first edition with five stars. This second edition updates the first, retaining the authors unique ability to teach this complex subject to a broad audience of students and practicing professionals.
* Details how the new standard allows for increased portability across tools.
* Covers related standards, including the Numeric Synthesis Package and the Synthesis Operability Package, demonstrating how they can be used for digital systems design.
* Presents four extensive case studies to demonstrate and combine features of the language taught across multiple chapters.
* Requires only a minimal background in programming, making it an excellent tutorial for anyone in computer architecture, digital systems engineering, or CAD.
"If we are to discuss the topic of modeling digital systems, we first need to agree on what a digital system is." Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Small focus on design and implementation,
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This review is from: The Designer's Guide to VHDL (Systems on Silicon) (Paperback)
This book is a great reference as far as describing the VHDL sintax goes. However, the "design" in the title didn't match my expectations. There is little focus on actual design, synthesis and implementation, the most part of the examples are only suitable for simulation, not implementation in reconfigurable systems.
For instance, the book does not explain how signals can infer laches or flip-flops or even simple interconnects, depending on the constructs where they appear. This a very basic subject that shouldn't go unmentioned on a Designer's book... Also, there is way too much topics about non synthesisable data types and operations, with only one meager chapter about synthesis near the end. The book serves well as a reference for the VHDL syntax, albeit the language and syntax diagrams aren't the best choice for clearness, but it isn't suited for VHDL based design at all. There is an awfull lot of better alternatives out there.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great reference for the experienced,
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This review is from: The Designer's Guide to VHDL (Systems on Silicon) (Paperback)
Once you are familiar with the design flow and you possess a good understanding of the language, this books is very useful and a great reference. For someone unfamiliar with the language and the concepts, I would recommend other books like the classic text by Navabi or Digital Logic with Microprocessor design by Hwang. Especially Navabi does a much better job in explaining concurrency or program structuring. I wish the author would use fewer words and more graphs to bring his message across.
Unlike other authors, he doesn't rely on any vendors' IDE. This renders the text timeless in a certain sense. This text certainly deserves its place of honor on every digital designers bookshelf.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best treatments on the subject,
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This review is from: The Designer's Guide to VHDL (Systems on Silicon) (Paperback)
I've had this book for little over a year now and I still refer back to it, time and again. In fact, I have several years experience programming in VHDL but I occassionally come across new and interesting problems and this book often has the answers I am looking for. The rather broad treatment and the plentiful examples means that I rarely have to look elsewhere.
Money well spent, I'd say.
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