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Features

• Part of the Xilinx Design Series—Each copy comes with a free copy of the Xilinx Student Edition 2.1.

  • Provides the reader with a complete learning package.

• Coverage of basic concepts.

  • Provides students with tutorials, examples, and laboratory exercises to promote better understanding of language features. Ex.___

• New integrated design environment from Xilinx—Available with the text and for its use in examples.

  • Reinforces concepts and enables students to learn state-of-the-art technology. Ex.___

• Dual approach.

  • Shows synthesis and simulation as complementary facets of the use of VHDL. Ex.___

• Examples and exercises in a CAD tool independent fashion—Xilinx specific descriptions available in Appendices.

  • The understanding of language concepts is not impeded by CAD tool specific issues. Ex.___

• Full set of viewgraphs and VHDL examples—Available on a Companion Website.

  • Provides students with a visual presentation to reinforce text explanations. Ex.___

• Coverage of basic simulation and synthesis concepts.

  • Discrete event simulation and hardware inference are presented as the underlying models for simulation and synthesis. As a result students quickly generate an intuition about writing and debugging VHDL programs. Ex.___

• Language constructs are presented by association with familiar concepts from digital logic and computer architecture.

  • Language constructs are easier to grasp and apply in a short period of time. Ex.___

• Departure from conventional pedagogy in teaching hardware description languages..

  • Emphasis is on providing a framework for thinking and reasoning about the structure and operation of VHDL programs. Students are productively constructing useful models very quickly. Ex.___

• Presentation follows the VHDL 1993 standard..

  • Skills are compliant with industry standard implementations. Ex.___

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The book has been written to introduce students and practitioners alike to two important topics:

• Basic VHDL language concepts
• A framework for thinking and reasoning about the structure and operation of VHDL programs when modeling for simulation and synthesis.

The road to useful models is paved by language features motivated by the need to describe behavioral and physical properties of digital circuits such as events, propagation delays, and concurrency. In this book, each major language construct is studied from two points of view:

• For the purpose of the simulation of physical or behavioral attributes of a digital system
• For the purpose of synthesis of the digital hardware

Each language feature presented in the book is accompanied by a complete example. Simulation and synthesis exercises address one or more associated VHDL modeling concepts. Further, the book is packaged with the Xilinx Student Edition Foundation Series Software, producing a powerful and self-contained learning environment. The result of reading this book is a fast paced ascension through the language to productive applications for solving realistic problems.

Practicing engineers will find the text and tool application self-paced. Instructors will find that the style of the book enables it to be used as a companion to courses in digital logic, computer architecture, or a HDL course. The Xilinx Student Edition tool sets enable students to quickly develop intuition about VHDL models. All readers will progress rapidly from reading to creating functioning models.

By focusing on the most commonly used core constructs and providing tutorials with the accompanying Xilinx Student Edition tools, Introductory VHDL: From Simulation To Synthesis is a must for those wishing to rapidly add VHDL to their skill sets.

Courses

• Advanced Digital Design/Logic [ADVANCED DIGITAL DESIGN WITH VHDL] (Electrical & Computing Engineering)
• Digital Design Laboratory [ADVANCED DIGITAL LOGIC WITH VHDL] (Electrical & Computing Engineering)

Websites and Online Courses

1. Companion Website-Yalamanchlii

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   ISBN-10: 0130275689 • ISBN-13: 9780130275684

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   (origin) This online resource is available at no cost at www.prenhall.com/yalamanchili.
   

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