The Designer's Guide to VHDL

by Peter J. Ashenden

The Designer's Guide to VHDL is both a comprehensive manual for the language and an authoritative reference on its use in hardware design at all levels, from system level down to gate level. Using the IEEE standard for VHDL, the author presents the entire description language and builds a modeling methodology based on successful software engineering techniques. Requiring only a minimal background in programming, this is an excellent tutorial for anyone in computer architecture, digital systems engineering, or CAD.
The book is organized so that it can either be read cover to cover for a comprehensive tutorial or be kept deskside as a reference to the language. Each chapter introduces a number of related concepts or language facilities and illustrates each one with examples. Scattered throughout the book are four case studies, which bring together preceding material in the form of extended worked examples. In addition, each chapter is followed by a set of rated exercises.

Genres: Reference

668 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Duy Tô]

This book is an excellent comprehensive guide to VHDL and digital design HDL concepts.

[Shai Huld Up]

For a programmable logic designer using VHDL, this book is a must have. If nothing more as a reference, this book is exhaustive in covering VHDL, even to its finest points.

[John Mladenik]

Many of the examples will not compile. They simulate but are not synthesizable. I prefer a book that uses real world example that can be used in the real world not code that can only simulate.