Real World FPGA Design with Verilog [With CDROM]

by Ken Coffman

The practical guide for every circuit designer creating FPGA designs with Verilog Walk through design step-by-step-from coding through silicon. Partitioning, synthesis, simulation, test benches,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130998516
• ISBN13: 9780130998514
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Book's Title fits

Ken's book contains many helpfull hints for the day to day FPGA design. It explains very well the pitfalls you will be trapped by and answers e.g. questions like what is actually is the difference between blocking and non-blocking assignment.

It scratched my itch....

This book fit nicely in the gap I noticed between books on digital design with Verilog that were written from a structured academic standpoint and product specific user manuals and application notes. To learn effective FPGA design from books one would desire to have this book along with the other two; lacking "Real World FPGA Design" one would have to ask colleagues lots of questions and learn the rest the hard way.I am using this book as I 'retool' as a FPGA Digital Design Engineer since full-custom design jobs here are drying up since few companies can afford the investment of time and money to bring custom devices to market. I wish there was a book like this for the classic chip design world that I could wave at the newbie system and digital designers that wanted me to add an 8 input NOR gate to the library that could drive a fanout of 50 loads 10 mm away.Verilog is a many-faceted gem; I have been using it since the early 90's, albeit at the switch and structural level. This book is useful to me as I learn to design in Verilog at greater level of abstraction and it differs from other texts I have found in that it does not lose sight of the lower-level 'gotchas'.The only thing that keeps me from giving this book my highest rating is that there are some errors that do need correcting; the URL listed in another review here remedies that problem.

Excellent jump-start book for engineers!

Anyone who understands C/pascal is going to love Ken's book. It's the perfect reference to sit next to your keyboard for a quick hands-on reference! Ken taught me in 1 minute how to create an array of cells in an FPGA simply via the TOC! In another minute I was implementing static-keys into a ROM'd lookup table.It could not have been easier.*Anyone trying to implement algorithms in Verilog should by this book*

"A Fatherly Book For A Beginer"

I was told about this book from my adviser Dr Shaob A Khan. This book is not only remarkable help for the sysnthesis on FPGA, but also a smooth and desciplined guide for the beginers of Verilog. Starting from the very first example of Overheat Alarm system this book keeps the reader in an enviorment where he gradually learns for the best.