By
Peter Ashenden, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia
Description
The Student's Guide to VHDL is a condensed edition of
The Designer's Guide to VHDL, the most widely used textbook on
VHDL for digital system modeling.
The Student's Guide is targeted as a supplemental reference book for computer organization
and digital design courses.
Since publication of the first edition of
The Student's Guide, the IEEE VHDL and related standards
have been revised. The
Designer's Guide has been revised to reflect the changes, so it is appropriate that
The Student's
Guide also be revised.
In The Student's Guide to VHDL, 2nd Edition, we have included a design case study illustrating
an FPGA-based design flow. The aim is to show how VHDL modeling fits into a design flow, starting from high-level design and proceeding
through detailed design and verification, synthesis, FPGA place and route, and final timing verification. Inclusion of the case study
helps to better serve the educational market. Currently, most college courses do not formally address the details of design flow. Students
may be given informal guidance on how to proceed with lab projects. In many cases, it is left to students to work it out for themselves.
The case study in
The Student's Guide provides a reference design flow that can be adapted to a variety of lab projects.
Included in series
Systems on Silicon
Audience:
Academic students in Computer Organization and Digital Design courses
