Verilog Developer's Library Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design Series' Sub Series: Amazon.co.uk: Bob Zeidman: Books

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Ready-to-use building blocks for integrated circuit design.

Why start coding from scratch when you can work from this library of pre-tested routines, created by an HDL expert? There are plenty of introductory texts to describe the basics of Verilog, but Verilog Designer's Library is the only book that offers real, reusable routines that you can put to work right away.

Verilog Designer's Library organizes Verilog routines according to functionality, making it easy to locate the material you need. Each function is described by a behavioral model to use for simulation, followed by the RTL code you'll use to synthesize the gate-level implementation. Extensive test code is included for each function, to assist you with your own verification efforts.

Coverage includes:

Essential Verilog coding techniques
Basic building blocks of successful routines
State machines and memories
Practical debugging guidelines

Although Verilog Designer's Library assumes a basic familiarity with Verilog structure and syntax, it does not require a background in programming. Beginners can work through the book in sequence to develop their skills, while experienced Verilog users can go directly to the routines they need. Hardware designers, systems analysts, VARs, OEMs, software developers, and system integrators will find it an ideal sourcebook on all aspects of Verilog development.

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This is the best book ever written. Buy it now!
(Sorry, I couldn't resist).

Seriously. This book is a compilation of very useful Verilog descriptions of common hardware functions. I used my years of experience as a hardware designer, along with feedback from many colleagues, to decide which common functions should be described. The functions in the beginning of the book are useful mainly to learn the Verilog language. Later functions are ones that my colleagues and I have needed to use in real designs. These include functions like Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs), Memory Controllers, and Phase Locked Loops (PLLs). Unfortunately, before this book, we often ended up designing these functions from scratch or spent hours in libraries or on the Internet, trying to find existing designs. One of the main advantages of this book is that it will free up hardware designers to create interesting, new functions rather than trying to reinvent or rediscover existing functions.

Another nice feature of the book is that all of the verification code is included. I didn't intend to do this at first, but I needed to simulate each function to insure that it worked correctly. With so much verification code, I realized I could make a much fatter and impressive book by including the code. I also realized that this verification code would be useful, since verification is becoming the bottleneck in many large chip designs.

I hope you find this book useful; I put a lot of work into it.

Thanks, -Bob Zeidman

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A Necessary Text 4 Oct 2000

By j.wetstein@ieee.org - Published on Amazon.com

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I am a senior systems engineer. This book has been instrumental in getting some of our new engineers quickly up to speed in Verilog so that they could begin doing design right away. This book doesn't try to solve every problem because it doesn't have to - instead it enables the reader to learn the cornerstones of design, teaching the user necessary skills and not simply cookbook repetitions. Synthesizable code is treated more fairly in this text than others. I was very pleased to add this to my library.

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A good library of models 22 Oct 1999

By L. W. Noronha - Published on Amazon.com

I was looking for models for a dual-port RAM and a FIFO. I couldn't find any book that had examples of either one of them. This book does and in great detail. That was worth the price of the book for me.

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Some Good Points 30 Dec 2002

By Cliff The Engineer - Published on Amazon.com

This book is good for beginners, it has a few good ideas in it. The Behavioral vs. RTL versions of the code is pretty useless, but the RTL vs. Simulation versions are useful. Getting a quick and dirty unit test bench up and running is a good idea. But DO NOT USE THE ASYNCHRONOUS FIFO. It does not work. If you are crossing clock boundaries, this is not the way to do it!

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