The Student's Guide to VHDL

By Peter J. Ashenden

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558608656
• ISBN13: 9781558608658
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Intro to the VHDL Language

I am an experienced Verilog HDL user and expert logic designer. I just wanted a book that would explain the basic syntax of VHDL. This book did the job. One topic missing that should have been included was "file I/O". For that glaring omission -> 4 stars! If you are looking for a VHDL book that teaches the language and how to apply it to logic synthesis, test benches, or behavorial modeling ... it ain't here ... syntax guide only people!

dont listen to others

Don't listen to the other reviews of this book which give it poor ratings. It is an excellent text for it's intended audience, those studying VHDL as part of their course. If you are in this position this book is exceptional value for money. If you are not and want the complete guide to VHDL then you should fork out the extra $'s for The designers guide to VHDL also by the same author which is the authoritive guide on the subject and is also presented in a exceptional manner, not seen in other texts of its nature.

Should be called 'Dummies Guide to VHDL'

I have found The Student's Guide to VHDL to be extremely helpful in learing VHDL from scratch. The rich amount of examples and highlighting of key words helps newcomers recognize the verbose and strict syntax of VHDL. This book is like a condensed version of the Developer's Guide by Ashenden and is wonderful for getting started in this language. For the price of this book and Ashenden's Developer's guide you can get away with a lot more help and information than single , and more expensive, books from other authors.