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DESIGN RECIPES FOR FPGAS
Design Recipes for FPGAs
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By
Peter Wilson, University of Southampton, UK and Integra Designs Ltd

Description
This book provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, the book gives ?easy-to-find? design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which engineers can easily match and apply to their application. The ?easy-to-find? structure begins with a design application to demonstrate the key building blocks of FPGA design and how to connect them, enabling the experienced FPGA designer to quickly select the right design for their application, while providing the less experienced a ?road map? to solving their specific design problem. Written in an informal and ?easy-to-grasp? style, this invaluable resource goes beyond the principles of FPGA s and hardware description languages to actually demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized, simulated and downloaded onto an FPGA. In addition, the book provides advanced techniques to create ?real world? designs that fit the device required and which are fast and reliable to implement. An accompanying CDROM contains code, test benches and simulation command files for ModelSim. This book will be an indispensable, well-thumbed resource for FPGA designers of all levels of experience.

Audience
Embedded system development engineers, FPGA engineers, hardware and software engineers. Undergraduates and postgraduates studying an embedded system which focuses on FPGA design.

Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF FIGURES

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW 1.2 WHY FPGAS? CHAPTER 2: AN FPGA PRIMER 2.1 INTRODUCTION 2.2 FPGA EVOLUTION 2.3 PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICES 2.4 FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS 2.5 FPGA DESIGN TECHNIQUES 2.6 DESIGN CONSTRAINTS USING FPGAS 2.7 SUMMARY CHAPTER 3: A VHDL PRIMER – THE ESSENTIALS 3.1 INTRODUCTION 3.2 ENTITY – MODEL INTERFACE 3.3 ARCHITECTURE – MODEL BEHAVIOUR 3.4 PROCESS – BASIC FUNCTIONAL UNIT IN VHDL 3.5 BASIC VARIABLE TYPES AND OPERATORS 3.6 DECISIONS AND LOOPS 3.7 HIERARCHICAL DESIGN 3.8 DEBUGGING MODELS 3.9 BASIC DATA TYPES 3.10 SUMMARY CHAPTER 4: DESIGN AUTOMATION AND TESTING FOR FPGAS 4.1 SIMULATION 4.2 LIBRARIES 4.3 SYNTHESIS 4.4 PHYSICAL DESIGN FLOW 4.5 PLACE AND ROUTE 4.6 TIMING ANALYSIS 4.7 DESIGN PITFALLS 4.8 VHDL ISSUES FOR FPGA DESIGN 4.9 SUMMARY

SECTION 2: APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 5: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 6: IMAGES AND HIGH SPEED PROCESSING 6.1 INTRODUCTION 6.2 THE CAMERA LINK INTERFACE 6.3 GETTING STARTED 6.4 SPECIFYING THE INTERFACES 6.5 DEFINING THE TOP LEVEL DESIGN 6.6 SYSTEM BLOCK DEFINITIONS AND INTERFACES 6.7 THE CAMERALINK INTERFACE 6.8 THE HARD DISC INTERFACE 6.9 SUMMARY CHAPTER 7: EMBEDDED PROCESSORS 7.1 INTRODUCTION 7.2 A SIMPLE EMBEDDED PROCESSOR 7.3 SOFT CORE PROCESSORS ON AN FPGA 7.4 SUMMARY

SECTION 3: DESIGNER?S TOOLBOX
CHAPTER 8: SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS 8.1 INTRODUCTION 8.2 MANCHESTER ENCODING AND DECODING 8.3 NRZ (NON-RETURN-TO-ZERO) CODING AND DECODING 8.4 NRZI (NON-RETURN-TO-ZERO-INVERTED) CODING AND DECODING 8.5 RS-232 8.6 USB (UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS) 8.7 SUMMARY CHAPTER 9: DIGITAL FILTERS 9.1 INTRODUCTION 9.2 CONVERTING S DOMAIN TO Z DOMAIN 9.3 IMPLEMENTING Z DOMAIN FUNCTIONS IN VHDL 9.4 BASIC LOW PASS FILTER MODEL 9.5 FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE (FIR) FILTERS 9.6 INFINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE (IIR) FILTERS 9.7 SUMMARY CHAPTER 10: SECURE SYSTEMS 10.1 INTRODUCTION TO BLOCK CIPHERS 10.2 FEISTEL LATTICE STRUCTURES 10.3 THE DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD (DES) 10.4 ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD (AES) CHAPTER 11: MEMORY 11.1 INTRODUCTION 11.2 MODELING MEMORY IN VHDL 11.3 READ ONLY MEMORY (ROM) 11.4 RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (RAM) 11.5 SYNCHRONOUS RAM (SRAM) 11.6 SUMMARY CHAPTER 12: PS/2 MOUSE INTERFACE 12.1 INTRODUCTION 12.2 PS/2 MOUSE BASICS 12.3 PS/2 MOUSE COMMANDS 12.4 PS/2 MOUSE DATA PACKETS 12.5 PS/2 OPERATION MODES 12.6 PS/2 MOUSE WITH WHEEL 12.7 BASIC PS/2 MOUSE HANDLER VHDL 12.8 MODIFIED PS/2 MOUSE HANDLER VHDL 12.9 SUMMARY CHAPTER 13: PS/2 KEYBOARD INTERFACE 13.1 INTRODUCTION 13.2 PS/2 KEYBOARD BASICS 13.3 PS/2 KEYBOARD COMMANDS 13.4 PS/2 KEYBOARD DATA PACKETS 13.5 PS/2 KEYBOARD OPERATION MODES 13.6 BASIC PS/2 KEYBOARD HANDLER VHDL 13.7 MODIFIED PS/2 KEYBOARD HANDLER VHDL 13.8 SUMMARY CHAPTER 14: A SIMPLE VGA INTERFACE 14.1 INTRODUCTION 14.2 BASIC PIXEL TIMING 14.3 IMAGE HANDLING 14.4 VGA INTERFACE VHDL 14.5 HORIZONTAL SYNC 14.6 VERTICAL SYNC 14.7 HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL BLANKING PULSES 14.8 CALCULATING THE CORRECT PIXEL DATA 14.9 SUMMARY

SECTION 4: OPTIMIZING DESIGNS
CHAPTER 15: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES 15.1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 16: SYNTHESIS 16.1 INTRODUCTION 16.2 VHDL SUPPORTED IN RTL SYNTHESIS 16.3 SOME INTERESTING CASES WHERE SYNTHESIS MAY FAIL 16.4 WHAT IS BEING SYNTHESISED? 16.5 SUMMARY CHAPTER 17: BEHAVIOURAL MODELING IN VHDL 17.1 INTRODUCTION 17.2 HOW TO GO FROM RTL TO BEHAVIOURAL VHDL 17.3 SUMMARY CHAPTER 18: DESIGN OPTIMIZATION 18.1 INTRODUCTION 18.2 TECHNIQUES FOR LOGIC OPTIMIZATION 18.3 IMPROVING PERFORMANCE 18.4 CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS 18.5 SUMMARY CHAPTER 19: VHDL-AMS 19.1 INTRODUCTION 19.2 INTRODUCTION TO VHDL-AMS 19.3 ANALOGUE PINS – TERMINALS 19.4 MIXED DOMAIN MODELING 19.5 ANALOGUE VARIABLES – QUANTITIES 19.6 SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS IN VHDL-AMS 19.7 A VHDL-AMS EXAMPLE – A DC VOLTAGE SOURCE 19.8 A VHDL-AMS EXAMPLE – RESISTOR 19.9 DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS IN VHDL-AMS 19.10 MIXED SIGNAL MODELING WITH VHDL-AMS 19.11 A BASIC SWITCH MODEL 19.12 BASIC VHDL-AMS COMPARATOR MODEL 19.13 MULTIPLE DOMAIN MODELING 19.14 SUMMARY CHAPTER 20: DESIGN OPTIMIZATION EXAMPLE: DES 20.1 INTRODUCTION 20.2 THE DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD (DES) 20.3 MOODS 20.4 INITIAL DESIGN 20.5 INITIAL SYNTHESIS 20.6 OPTIMIZING THE DATAPATH 20.7 FINAL OPTIMIZATION 20.8 RESULTS 20.9 TRIPLE DES 20.10 COMPARING THE APPROACHES 20.11 SUMMARY

SECTION 5: FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES
CHAPTER 21: COUNTERS 21.1 INTRODUCTION 21.2 BASIC BINARY COUNTER 21.3 SYNTHESISED SIMPLE BINARY COUNTER 21.4 SHIFT REGISTER 21.5 THE JOHNSON COUNTER 21.6 BCD COUNTER 21.7 SUMMARY CHAPTER 22: LATCHES, FLIP-FLOPS AND REGISTERS 22.1 INTRODUCTION 22.2 LATCHES 22.3 FLIP-FLOPS 22.4 REGISTERS 22.5 SUMMARY CHAPTER 23: SERIAL TO PARALLEL & PARALLEL TO SERIAL CONVERSION 23.1 SERIAL TO PARALLEL CONVERSION (SIPO) 23.2 PARALLEL TO SERIAL CONVERSION (PISO) 23.3 SUMMARY CHAPTER 24: ALU FUNCTIONS 24.1 INTRODUCTION 24.2 LOGIC FUNCTIONS 24.3 1 BIT ADDER 24.4 STRUCTURAL N-BIT ADDITION 24.5 CONFIGURABLE N-BIT ADDITION 24.6 TWOS COMPLEMENT 24.7 SUMMARY CHAPTER 25: DECODERS AND MULTIPLEXERS 25.1 DECODERS 25.2 MULTIPLEXERS 25.3 SUMMARY CHAPTER 26: FINITE STATE MACHINES IN VHDL 26.1 INTRODUCTION 26.2 STATE TRANSITION DIAGRAMS 26.3 IMPLEMENTING FINITE STATE MACHINES IN VHDL 26.4 SUMMARY CHAPTER 27: FIXED POINT ARITHMETIC IN VHDL 27.1 INTRODUCTION 27.2 BASIC FIXED POINT TYPES 27.3 FIXED POINT FUNCTIONS 27.4 TESTING THE FIXED POINT FUNCTION 27.5 SUMMARY CHAPTER 28: BINARY MULTIPLICATION 28.1 INTRODUCTION 28.2 BASIC BINARY MULTIPLICATION 28.3 VHDL UNSIGNED MULTIPLIER 28.4 SYNTHESIS OF THE MULTIPLICATION FUNCTION 28.5 ?SIMPLE? MULTIPLICATION 28.6 SUMMARY CHAPTER 29: BIBLIOGRAPHY 29.1 INTRODUCTION 29.2 USEFUL TEXTS FOR VHDL AND FPGA DESIGNERSINDEX

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 320 pages, publication date: MAY-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6845-3
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6845-8
Imprint: NEWNES

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