Key Features
*Gets you up to speed with VHDL fast, reducing time to market and driving down costs
* Companion website with source code and other documents to assist the student in building the reference design used throughout the book (http://www.elsevierdirect.com/v2/companion.jsp?ISBN=9781856177047)
*Covers the basics including language concepts and includes complete design examples for ease of learning
* Covers widely accepted industry nomenclature
* Learn from "best design practices"
Description
VHDL 101 is written for Electrical Engineers and others wishing to break into FPGA design and assumes a basic knowledge of digital design and some experience with engineering ‘process’.
Bill Kafig, industry expert, swiftly brings the reader up to speed on techniques and functions commonly used in VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) as well as commands and data types. Extensive simple, complete designs accompany the content for maximum comprehension. The book concludes with a section on design re-use, which is of utmost importance to today's engineer who needs to meet a deadline and lower costs per unit.
*Gets you up to speed with VHDL fast, reducing time to market and driving down costs
* Companion website with source code and other documents to assist the student in building the reference design used throughout the book (http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9781856177047)
*Covers the basics including language concepts and includes complete design examples for ease of learning
* Covers widely accepted industry nomenclature
* Learn from "best design practices"
Readership
Electrical engineers, hardware engineers, and students that have no FPGA or VHDL experience
VHDL 101, 1st Edition
Preface; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction and Background, 1.1 VHDL, Brief History of VHDL, 1.2.1 Coding Styles: Structural vs. Behavioral vs. RTL, 1.3 FPGA Architecture, 1.3.1 Creating the Design; Chapter 2: Overview of the Process of Implementing an FPGA Design, 2.1 Design Entry, Synthesis, 2.3 Simulation. 2.4 Implementation, 2.4.1 Translate, 2.4.2 Map, 2.4.3 Place and Route, 2.5. Bitstream Generation;Chapter 3: Loop 1 - Going with the Flow, 3.1 The Shape of VHDL, 3.1.1 The Many Levels of Comments, 3.1.2 Library and Package Inclusion, 3.1.3 Entity, 3.1.4 Architecture, 3.1.5 Configuration Statements, 3.1.6 Signals, Data Types, Logical Operators, 3.1.7 Concurrent Statements, 3.1.8 Baud Rate Generator, 3.1.9 Transmitter, 3.1.10 Receiver, 3.1.11 Introducing the Simulation Environment; Chapter 4: Loop 2 - Going Deeper, 4.1 Introducing Processes, Variables, and Sequential Statements, 4.1.1 Variables, 4.1.2 Signals within processes, 4.1.3 Sequential Statements, 4.2 Tool Perspectives - Synthesis Options and Contraints, 4.2.1 Synthesis Options, 4.2.2 Constraints; Chapter 5: Loop 3, 5.1 Introducing Concept of Reuse, 5.1.1 A Little More on Libraries and Packages, 5.2 Flexibility Using Generics and Constants, 5.3 Generate Statements, 5.3.1 Conditional Generate Form, 5.3.2 Generate Loop Form, 5.4 Functions and Procedures, 5.4.1 Function and Procedure Parameters, 5.4.2 Overloading, 5.4.3 When to Use Procedures and Functions, 5.4.4 Using Functions and Procedures, 5.5 Attributes, 5.6 Packages, 5.6.1 Organizing and Creating a Library, 5.7 Commonly Used Libraries, 5.71 Simulation Packages, 5.7.2 IEEE_1164, 5.7.3 NUMERIC_STD, 5.7.4 TEXTIO; Appendix: A Quick Reference; A.1 Language Constructs; A.2 Data Types; A.3 Standard Libraries;Index
