The designer's guide to VHDL

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The work The designer's guide to VHDL represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The designer's guide to VHDL

Statement of responsibility

Peter J. Ashenden

Creator

• Ashenden, Peter J

Subject

• COMPUTERS -- Computer Engineering
• COMPUTERS -- Hardware | General
• COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory
• Electronic books
• Electronic digital computers -- Computer simulation
• Electronic digital computers -- Computer simulation
• Electronic digital computers -- Computer simulation
• VHDL
• VHDL (Computer hardware description language)
• VHDL (Computer hardware description language)
• VHDL (Computer hardware description language)

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Since the publication of the first edition of The Designer's Guide to VHDL in 1996, digital electronic systems have increased exponentially in their complexity, product lifetimes have dramatically shrunk, and reliability requirements have shot through the roof. As a result more and more designers have turned to VHDL to help them dramatically improve productivity as well as the quality of their designs. VHDL, the IEEE standard hardware description language for describing digital electronic systems, allows engineers to describe the structure and specify the function of a digital system as well as simulate and test it before manufacturing. In addition, designers use VHDL to synthesize a more detailed structure of the design, freeing them to concentrate on more strategic design decisions and reduce time to market. Adopted by designers around the world, the VHDL family of standards have recently been revised to address a range of issues, including portability across synthesis tools. This best-selling comprehensive tutorial for the language and authoritative reference on its use in hardware design at all levels--from system to gates--has been revised to reflect the new IEEE standard, VHDL-2001. Peter Ashenden, a member of the IEEE VHDL standards committee, presents the entire description language and builds a modeling methodology based on successful software engineering techniques. Reviewers on Amazon.com have consistently rated the first edition with five stars. This second edition updates the first, retaining the authors unique ability to teach this complex subject to a broad audience of students and practicing professionals. * Details how the new standard allows for increased portability across tools. * Covers related standards, including the Numeric Synthesis Package and the Synthesis Operability Package, demonstrating how they can be used for digital systems design. * Presents four extensive case studies to demonstrate and combine features of the language taught across multiple chapters. * Requires only a minimal background in programming, making it an excellent tutorial for anyone in computer architecture, digital systems engineering, or CAD

Member of

• Morgan Kaufmann series in systems on silicon
• O'Reilly Safari Learning Platform: Academic edition

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

621.39/2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

TK7888.3

LC item number

.A863 2002eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Systems on silicon