A Guide to VHDL

by Patricia Langstraat, Stanley Mazor, Patricia Langstraat Stanley Mazor

Book Overview

A Guide to VHDL, Second Edition is intended for the working engineer who needs to develop, document, simulate, and synthesize a design using the VHDL language. It is for system and chip designers who are working with VHDL CAD tools, and who have some experience programming in Fortran, Pascal, or C and have used a logic simulator. A Guide to VHDL, Second Edition includes a number of paper exercises and computer lab experiments. If a compiler/simulator...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792393872
• ISBN13: 9780792393870
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A guide to get started in VHDL

As the author, I wrote this book as an introduction for someone who wanted to learn to use this design language. It is not particulary suitable as a reference guide, but instead is organized to help you grasp the fundamental relationships and organization of the VHDL language. Even for experienced programmers some of the concepts are a bit hard at first. We try also to include the motivations and uses for various features. There are a number of simple examples included. I hope you enjoy and use this book. stan mazor

A good book on fundamentals

I just borrowed the book from the library and I am reading through it to understand VHDL. It is good for my background: I know more than ten programming languages, know digital logic design, and is familiar with Verilog. I had read a few other VHDL books, but was kind of confused by their writing styles. I like this book because it tells the rationals behind the VHDL design. It is focused on the design of the language itself. The other books I read tried to cover many things like microprocessor design or DSP design, but didn't clarify why VHDL uses concepts like entity, architecture, process, etc. For a professional, it is fast to learn VHDL from this book. But this book is possibly not a good book for a student because of its focus. It lacks detail (not a good reference book) and doesn't have many examples.

Great book to start on VHDL......and beyond

If you want to build a solid foundation in VHDL, this is the book to buy. I absolutely loved it.