New Release Books by David Pellerin

FPGA brings high performance applications to market quickly – this book covers the many emerging platforms in a proven, effective manner.

65076-2 Get started with VHDL--the easy way! Intended for both new and more experienced VHDL users, "VHDL Made Easy" presents the concepts of VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) for synthesis and simulation in an easy-to-understand way, using examples, tutorials, and detailed descriptions of important VHDL language features. Synthesis coding conventions are covered in detail, as are techniques for test bench development. A comprehensive VHDL keyword reference is also included. The book includes descriptions of important VHDL standards, including IEEE standards 1076-1993, 1164, 1076.3, and 1076.4 (VITAL). The CD-ROM included with the book contains a Microsoft(R) Windows-compatible VHDL simulator, as well as demonstration versions of a number of other VHDL-related commercial software products and sample VHDL code and projects. The CD-ROM runs on Windows 3.1, Windows(R) 95, and Windows NT(TM).

Nowhere else can you find so many EDA tools and technologies collected and distributed in one package. With the companion CD-ROM, readers will have the ability to try out the concepts and tools that are discussed in the book, and will learn about the many products that are available to help address their design needs.

The book starts with the basics of logic design and quickly progresses to advanced PLD-specific design techniques, with a section addressing problems of testability and production. It ends with an informative design example including descriptions and supplementary documentation complete enough to allow even the most novice PLD users to duplicate this design themselves.