VHDL Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Cohen, Ben

Cohen, Ben

ISBN 10: 0792381157 / ISBN 13: 9780792381150

Published by Springer, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: VHDL Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Cohen, Ben
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792381157
• ISBN 13: 9780792381150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

VHDL Answers to Frequently asked Questions is a follow-up to the author's book VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies (ISBN 0-7923-9598-0). On completion of his first book, the author continued teaching VHDL and actively participated in the comp. lang. vhdl newsgroup. During his experiences, he was enlightened by the many interesting issues and questions relating to VHDL and synthesis. These pertained to: misinterpretations in the use of the language; methods for writing error free, and simulation efficient, code for testbench designs and for synthesis; and general principles and guidelines for design verification. As a result of this wealth of public knowledge contributed by a large VHDL community, the author decided to act as a facilitator of this information by collecting different classes of VHDL issues, and by elaborating on these topics through complete simulatable examples. TItis book is intended for those who are seeking an enhanced proficiency in VHDL. Its target audience includes: 1. Engineers. The book addresses a set of problems commonly experienced by real users of VHDL. It provides practical explanations to the questions, and suggests practical solutions to the raised issues. It also includes packages of common utilities that are useful in the generation of debug code and testbench designs. These packages include conversions to strings (the IMAGE package), generation of Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSR), Multiple Input Shift Register (MISR), and random number generators.

Synopsis

This volume is a follow up to the author's books, "VHDL Answers to Frequently Asked Questions" (ISBN 0-7923-9791-6) and "VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies" (ISBN 0-7923-9598-0). It addresses: misinterpretations in the use of the language; methods for writing error-free, and simulation-efficient, code for testbench designs and for synthesis; and general principles and guidelines for design verification. This second edition includes the following additions: a new chapter on design for reuse that defines coding and design techniques that are impermeable to new technologies and are malleable to new requirements; more questions and answers including discussions on applications of guarded signals and shared variables; and more models including the design of a reusable priority encoder, and a switch; more packages including an enhancement of image package to convert values to text strings in binary, hexadecimal, and decimal formats, and the complex package that defines complex numbers and overloaded operators.

The text emphasizes real VHDL, rather than philosophical or introductory types of information; emphasizes application of VHDL for synthesis; uses complete examples to demonstrate problems and solutions; provides a disk that includes all the book examples and other useful VHDL reference material; uses easy to remember symbology notation to emphasize language rules, good and poor methodology and coding styles; identifies obsolete VHDL constructs that must be avoided; identifies synthesizable/non-synthesizable structures; and uses a question and answer format to clarify and emphasize the concerns of VHDL users.