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<p> Since the publication of the first edition of The Designer's Guide to VHDL in 1996, digital electronic systems have increased exponentially in their complexity, product lifetimes have dramatically shrunk, and reliability requirements have shot through the roof. As a result more and mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ashenden, Peter J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA : Morgan Kaufmann, [2002]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
VHDL (Computer hardware description language)
Electronic digital computers > Computer simulation.
VHDL.
VHDL (Langage de description de matériel informatique)
Ordinateurs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Fundamental Concepts
  • 2 Scalar Data Types and Operations
  • 3 Sequential Statements
  • 4 Composite Data Types and Operations
  • 5 Basic Modeling Constructs
  • 6 Case Study: A Pipelined Multiplier Accumulator
  • 7 Subprograms
  • 8 Packages and Use Clauses
  • 9 Aliases
  • 10 Case Study: A Bit-Vector Arithmetic Package
  • 11 Resolved Signals
  • 12 Generic Constants
  • 13 Components and Configurations
  • 14 Generate Statements
  • 15 Case Study: The DLX Computer System
  • 16 Guards and Blocks
  • 17 Access Types and Abstract Data Types
  • 18 Files and Input/Output
  • 19 Case Study: Queuing Networks
  • 20 Attributes and Groups
  • 21 Miscellaneous Topics
  • A Synthesis
  • B The Predefined Package Standard
  • C IEEE Standard Packages
  • D Related Standards
  • E VHDL Syntax
  • F Differences
  • G Answers to Exercises
  • References
  • Index.
  • CD contents: all of the examples used in the book
  • Loadable versions of the software tools used to simulate and synthesize the examples in the book: Leonardo synthesis software
  • Modelsim simulator to simulate the design examples.