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The skills and guidance needed to master RTL hardware design
This book teaches readers how to systematically design efficient, portable, and scalable Register Transfer Level (RTL) digital circuits using the VHDL hardware description language and synthesis software. Focusing on the module–level design, which is composed of functional units, routing circuit, and storage, the book illustrates the relationship between the VHDL constructs and the underlying hardware components, and shows how to develop codes that faithfully reflect the module–level design and can be synthesized into efficient gate–level implementation.
Several unique features distinguish the book:
∗ Coding style that shows a clear relationship between VHDL constructs and hardware components
∗ Conceptual diagrams that illustrate the realization of VHDL codes
∗ Emphasis on the code reuse
∗ Practical examples that demonstrate and reinforce design concepts, procedures, and techniques
∗ Two chapters on realizing sequential algorithms in hardware
∗ Two chapters on scalable and parameterized designs and coding
∗ One chapter covering the synchronization and interface between multiple clock domains
Although the focus of the book is RTL synthesis, it also examines the synthesis task from the perspective of the overall development process. Readers learn good design practices and guidelines to ensure that an RTL design can accommodate future simulation, verification, and testing needs, and can be easily incorporated into a larger system or reused. Discussion is independent of technology and can be applied to both ASIC and FPGA devices.
With a balanced presentation of fundamentals and practical examples, this is an excellent textbook for upper–level undergraduate or graduate courses in advanced digital logic. Engineers who need to make effective use of today′s synthesis software and FPGA devices should also refer to this book.
This book teaches readers how to systematically design efficient, portable, and scalable Register Transfer Level (RTL) digital circuits using the VHDL hardware description language and synthesis software. Focusing on the module–level design, which is composed of functional units, routing circuit, and storage, the book illustrates the relationship between the VHDL constructs and the underlying hardware components, and shows how to develop codes that faithfully reflect the module–level design and can be synthesized into efficient gate–level implementation.
Several unique features distinguish the book:
∗ Coding style that shows a clear relationship between VHDL constructs and hardware components
∗ Conceptual diagrams that illustrate the realization of VHDL codes
∗ Emphasis on the code reuse
∗ Practical examples that demonstrate and reinforce design concepts, procedures, and techniques
∗ Two chapters on realizing sequential algorithms in hardware
∗ Two chapters on scalable and parameterized designs and coding
∗ One chapter covering the synchronization and interface between multiple clock domains
Although the focus of the book is RTL synthesis, it also examines the synthesis task from the perspective of the overall development process. Readers learn good design practices and guidelines to ensure that an RTL design can accommodate future simulation, verification, and testing needs, and can be easily incorporated into a larger system or reused. Discussion is independent of technology and can be applied to both ASIC and FPGA devices.
With a balanced presentation of fundamentals and practical examples, this is an excellent textbook for upper–level undergraduate or graduate courses in advanced digital logic. Engineers who need to make effective use of today′s synthesis software and FPGA devices should also refer to this book.
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The skills and guidance needed to master RTL hardware design
This book teaches readers how to systematically design efficient, portable, and scalable Register Transfer Level (RTL) digital circuits using the VHDL hardware description language and synthesis software. Focusing on the module–level design, which is composed of functional units, routing circuit, and storage, the book illustrates the relationship between the VHDL constructs and the underlying hardware components, and shows how to develop codes that faithfully reflect the module–level design and can be synthesized into efficient gate–level implementation.
Several unique features distinguish the book:
- Coding style that shows a clear relationship between VHDL constructs and hardware components
- Conceptual diagrams that illustrate the realization of VHDL codes
- Emphasis on the code reuse
- Practical examples that demonstrate and reinforce design concepts, procedures, and techniques
- Two chapters on realizing sequential algorithms in hardware
- Two chapters on scalable and parameterized designs and coding
- One chapter covering the synchronization and interface between multiple clock domains
Although the focus of the book is RTL synthesis, it also examines the synthesis task from the perspective of the overall development process. Readers learn good design practices and guidelines to ensure that an RTL design can accommodate future simulation, verification, and testing needs, and can be easily incorporated into a larger system or reused. Discussion is independent of technology and can be applied to both ASIC and FPGA devices.
With a balanced presentation of fundamentals and practical examples, this is an excellent textbook for upper–level undergraduate or graduate courses in advanced digital logic. Engineers who need to make effective use of today′s synthesis software and FPGA devices should also refer to this book.
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Best book ever for synthesis
17 Dec 2008
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This book focuses on the IEEE 1076.6 VHDL RTL synthesis standard. If you want to do behavioral modeling, look to Peter J. Ashenden's Designer's Guide to VHDL. If you want to make circuits that work. This is your book. VHDL is a complex language that can be used for different purposes. Actual hardware design is only one of these purposes. So if that's what you want to do, get this book that focuses on that particular aspect of the language.
There are plenty of End of Chapter exercises that are challenging but doable. Topics are in depth and good design practices are taught alongside good coding style.
There are plenty of End of Chapter exercises that are challenging but doable. Topics are in depth and good design practices are taught alongside good coding style.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Excellent book for digital IC designer
5 Mar 2008
Format:Hardcover
This is an excellent book for digital IC designer using
VHDL at the RT level. It does not cover the full VHDL
syntax, but it gives a lot of information on how to design
a digital ASIC using VHDL.
VHDL at the RT level. It does not cover the full VHDL
syntax, but it gives a lot of information on how to design
a digital ASIC using VHDL.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great text for a second course
1 May 2011
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The world is well populated with books on elementary logic design, Katz's being one of the good ones. Such books present all the basics of hardware logic, registers, computer arithmetic, and maybe a little about a popular hardware description language (HDL), Verilog or VHDL. Then there are the language books that take basic logic concepts and show how to render them in one of the HDLs. Unfortunately, there's not much out there for the student who's mastered the basics, but isn't ready to dive in at the deep end of computer architecture.
Chu's book meets the needs of that advancing student better than any other I know. After introductory chapters that orient the reader and set expectations, Chu dives in with a quick tour of VHDL basics. These 'basics', by the way, cover more detail than some entire texts. The next chapters cover principles and practice of combinational and sequential circuits, state machine design, register transfer level (RTL) design, and hierarchical design, with emphasis throughout on timing and efficient design. For example, sharing of functional units comes up as a topic in itself, something that arises in practice but rarely in the classroom. Toward the end, Chu presents the best discussion of parameterized design I've seen, including fairly advanced use of 'generate' statements and VHDL's alternative architectures. The last chapter covers design considerations for clock distribution and for crossing between clock domains, topics that arise in every non-trivial design and that continue to cause problems for designers.
This book covers its topics better than any other I know. The beginning logic designer's first course has been well covered, and (except for use of HDLs) hasn't changed all that much since about 1980. The digital world has changed dramatically, though, and this book does a great job starting where other texts leave off.
- wiredweird
Chu's book meets the needs of that advancing student better than any other I know. After introductory chapters that orient the reader and set expectations, Chu dives in with a quick tour of VHDL basics. These 'basics', by the way, cover more detail than some entire texts. The next chapters cover principles and practice of combinational and sequential circuits, state machine design, register transfer level (RTL) design, and hierarchical design, with emphasis throughout on timing and efficient design. For example, sharing of functional units comes up as a topic in itself, something that arises in practice but rarely in the classroom. Toward the end, Chu presents the best discussion of parameterized design I've seen, including fairly advanced use of 'generate' statements and VHDL's alternative architectures. The last chapter covers design considerations for clock distribution and for crossing between clock domains, topics that arise in every non-trivial design and that continue to cause problems for designers.
This book covers its topics better than any other I know. The beginning logic designer's first course has been well covered, and (except for use of HDLs) hasn't changed all that much since about 1980. The digital world has changed dramatically, though, and this book does a great job starting where other texts leave off.
- wiredweird
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