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| | Description | This textbook teaches VHDL using system examples combined with programmable logic and supported by laboratory exercises. While other textbooks concentrate only on language features, Circuit Design with VHDL offers a fully integrated presentation of VHDL and design concepts by including a large number of complete design examples, illustrative circuit diagrams, a review of fundamental design concepts, fully explained solutions, and simulation results. The text presents the information concisely yet completely, discussing in detail all indispensable features of the VHDL synthesis. The book is organized in a clear progression, with the first part covering the circuit level, treating foundations of VHDL and fundamental coding, and the second part covering the system level (units that might be located in a library for code sharing, reuse, and partitioning), expanding upon the earlier chapters to discuss system coding.
Part I, "Circuit Design," examines in detail the background and coding techniques of VHDL, including code structure, data types, operators and attributes, concurrent and sequential statements and code, objects (signals, variables, and constants), design of finite state machines, and examples of additional circuit designs. Part II, "System Design," builds on the material already presented, adding elements intended mainly for library allocation; it examines packages and components, functions and procedures, and additional examples of system design. Appendixes on programmable logic devices (PLDs/FPGAs) and synthesis tools follow Part II. The book's highly original approach of teaching through extensive system examples as well as its unique integration of VHDL and design make it suitable both for use by students in computer science and electrical engineering. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Volnei A. Pedroni | | Hardcover: | 375 pages | | Publisher: | The MIT Press | | Publication Date: | August 01, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0262162245 | | Product Width: | 1.81 centimeters | | Product Height: | 2.25 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 0.02 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.06 inches | | Package Width: | 7.24 inches | | Package Height: | 0.94 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.59 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 33 reviews |
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57 of 58 found the following review helpful:
 By far the best introductory book to circuit design with VHDL! Jul 10, 2005
By Pavel V. Kolinko
"telenochek82"
I am a physics graduate student who needed to learn VHDL for many of my projects (FPGA-based digital filters, FFT and other high speed digital-based processing).
After spending about a week trying to cookbook/copycat the complicated structures in VHDL I decided it would be best to start at a basic level to get a solid grasp of VHDL.
It is hard to imagine a better introduction.
The author did a perfect job integrating the routine software writing with system design.
All of the code is COMPLETE and all of it works (90% of it I checked myself, when going through examples & problems).
Simulations, complete code and clear diagrams are presented for every example!
If you need to do real engineering work using VHDL, and have a list of designs on your table that are begging for FPGA, ASIC, CPLDs, but don't know how to do it in VHDL, this book is for you.
Some cautionary notes:
1) This book gives you basic, but fundamental knowledge of VHDL. If you know other programming languages (for example assembler, Vis. Basic or C/C++), but need VHDL then after this book you can start writing real code and will be able to understand complicated examples and will easily be able to incorporate IP cores into projects.
Contrary to the opinion of some of the above reviewers, I disagree that this book is a cookbook. It doesn't have any really complicated design examples like FFT.
The book is all about giving the reader a very solid footing of VHDL so that the reader could reference other much more involved references/ code examples/ IP cores etc..
2) This book will be of very little use if you don't know
basic logic/ digital circuits.
The book explains things like carry lookahead adder clearly but very briefly.
3) I found the problems, examples and chapter very well connected. And the problems were very useful.
Note though that although the solutions to problems are provided only to instructors, you can rely on simulations to check if the your solution is correct.
4) I also think that it helps to have a development board (FPGA/CPLD)to check some of the designs.
All of the above is only my opinion, of course.
And thanks to Dr. Pedroni for sharing some of his expertise so well.
19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Amazing Book! Dec 02, 2005
By Mark John Roman
I had a VHDL class where the text was basically a manual for the language. This book however, is like a VHDL for Dummies. It presents everything you need to know to model circuits in vhdl.
I was halfway through my vhdl class and had no idea what was going on. This book cleaned me right up.
Again, what a great book!
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Essential, indispensable Feb 24, 2005
By Mateja Putic
I'm a fourth year computer engineering student, and I've found this book to be the best reference for VHDL fundamentals in my personal library. What this book offers is a concise reference. It's not very long, but it's very thorough. It's essentially a cookbook; there are lots and lots of examples with clear block logic diagrams which give you an overview of the architecture. In addition, each design has a test bench simulation, which is essential. Of course, each example has the VHDL implementation of the component, each with relevant, helpful comments within the code. There are even more complex examples, such as a vending machine control circuit and neural networks and more. If you're a beginner, the first few chapters will walk you through. If you're an expert, it can be used as reference, made easier by the excellent chapter organization. The appendices also show how to design, simulate, and lay out designs in several popular development software suites. This book is amazing. Do yourself a favor and add it to your library. Buy it now.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Good hardware, bad terminology and VHDL syntax Mar 18, 2009
By Jim Lewis
I wanted to rate this book a 5 and recommend it in our VHDL classes, however, due to its numerous errors in basic understanding of VHDL, I could not.
Hardware design wise, this book has numerous great examples that will help you understand how to apply VHDL.
Numerous (and far too many) pages have errors on them.
For example, the book claims the 'U' in std_ulogic stands for unresolved and that std_logic does not have a 'U'. In IEEE 1076-2008 (and previously in IEEE 1164 (std_logic_1164), the 'U' is defined to mean undriven and both std_ulogic and std_logic have the same 9 values.
Terminology about many statements is not consistent with how VHDL defines the terminology. If used in a classroom, this type of stuff is easy to correct, however, if you are reading this book to learn VHDL, I would recommend you supplement it with a language book such as Bhasker's or Ashenden's.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Fantastic Book designing FPGAs with VHDL Nov 13, 2006
By Cougarbob
This book is laid out by language concept (operators, architecture, etc), but features many fully coded examples to get you started - such as RAM, ROM, adders, counters, shifters, etc. Whether you're beginning VHDL, or haven't coded in a while (which is my case), this book is a great instruction or refresher. Additionally, there are mini tutorials in the back for Altera tools (Quartus II and MaxPlus) as well as the Xilinx ISE & modelsim.
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