Circuit Design with VHDL | 
 enlarge | Author: Volnei A. Pedroni
Publisher: The MIT Press
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Pages: 375
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ISBN: 0262162245
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Publication Date: August 1, 2004
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This textbook teaches VHDL using system examples combined with programmable logic and supported by laboratory exercises. While other textbooks concentrate only on language features, Circuit Design with VHDL offers a fully integrated presentation of VHDL and design concepts by including a large number of complete design examples, illustrative circuit diagrams, a review of fundamental design concepts, fully explained solutions, and simulation results. The text presents the information concisely yet completely, discussing in detail all indispensable features of the VHDL synthesis. The book is organized in a clear progression, with the first part covering the circuit level, treating foundations of VHDL and fundamental coding, and the second part covering the system level (units that might be located in a library for code sharing, reuse, and partitioning), expanding upon the earlier chapters to discuss system coding. Part I, "Circuit Design," examines in detail the background and coding techniques of VHDL, including code structure, data types, operators and attributes, concurrent and sequential statements and code, objects (signals, variables, and constants), design of finite state machines, and examples of additional circuit designs. Part II, "System Design," builds on the material already presented, adding elements intended mainly for library allocation; it examines packages and components, functions and procedures, and additional examples of system design. Appendixes on programmable logic devices (PLDs/FPGAs) and synthesis tools follow Part II. The book's highly original approach of teaching through extensive system examples as well as its unique integration of VHDL and design make it suitable both for use by students in computer science and electrical engineering.
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 Very Good Book October 7, 2008
I am an Electrical Engineer who had taken just 1 VHDL course way back in College. This book was very good in refreshing my memory as I was entrusted with an FPGA project. I am happy to say the project went well and this book helped a lot. Make sure you use the web as well as there are a lot of great VHDL tutorials out there.
 Ok, but not great September 13, 2008
As a professional physicist, I have had the opportunity to learn many new programming languages and use a variety of hardware. Naturally, learning VHDL was a natural evolution in my education and I was very excited to begin learning how to program FPGA. I bought 'Circuit Design with VHDL' by Dr. Pedroni since the other reviewers were relatively positive. However, my experience has been mixed.
My primary complaint is that this book does not have a clear target audience. At times it introduces introductory idea in detail while at other times it assumes a detailed knowledge of the subject matter. In my opinion, this is not a very good book to learn from. It would be significantly better if every new concept was explained in detail. For example, in the chapter on state machines, the book launches into a discussion of state machines without first defining what a state machine is, what their uses are, advantages and disadvantages of using a state machine, different types of state machines, etc. It is this lack of background material that makes 'Circuit Design with VHDL' inadequate as a single source for learning VHDL. Perhaps it would be alright as a reference for those already at an intermediate level.
My other lesser complaints are that this book is exceedingly dry and somewhat poorly organized. I hope that this will be amended in a future edition; VHDL programming could use a well-structured, engaging, and complete introductory textbook.
 Circuit design with VHDL made easy August 11, 2008
This concise and interesting book provides a detailed approach to FPGA-based digital circuit and system design using VHDL. It presents the basic concepts in organized and progressive phases. The textbook covers the constructs of the VHDL programming language with a large number of implementable examples. A multitude of complete illustrative examples are also included.
The second part of the book discusses other important features of the design aspects using VHDL such as components, functions, and procedures. The book is intended for computer and electrical engineering students and practicing engineers. See alsoDigital Electronics and Design with VHDL
Excellent Book August 3, 2008
If you are searching for the best book in VHDL ever, you will not find such a book! However, if you decided to start learning VHDL, Pedroni (the author) got you. I am doing my masters and I just finished reading this book and I finished my final project for the course as well. It is my first course in VHDL. By finishing this book as I said I was able to design and implement a FULL CPU (MIPS architecture) as a final project for the course. and I am sure that if you read this book you will do a similar or better job.
Regarding books, we, i.e. students, are looking for specific features:
1- well written and easy to read.
2- well organized.
3- correct and clear ideas with smooth information flow.
4- good and correct solved examples.
5- are you going to use that book if you worked in industry.
6- LEAST NUMBER of pages.
all these requirements are met in this book. within less than 400 pages you will learn, how to implement any digital system. If you read this book, you will not learn digital filters design (FIR, IIR) or neural Networks (NN) design. However, if you know how to design them, this book presents some examples about how to implement FIR, IIR and NN using VHDL.
I highly recommend reading this book as a start up, and for sure your next step (I mean after reading this book) will be working in industry. you will need no more books to learn VHDL. instead, you will need to review digital systems' designs and start implementing them using your skills you have from this book.
IN CONCLUSION:
"THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE BEST VHDL BOOKS, AND IT IS A 5-STAR BOOK FOR SURE"
Great book - could use a 2nd edtiion. February 11, 2008
This book does a great job of teaching you how the VHDL language works, and how to use it.
It has many explained examples, and problems you can try.
I agree with others that he does jump around a bit, and you will have to look back or ahead.
It could also use a VHDL Quick Reference and a glossary.
If the index clear should where a key word was first defined, this would work too. It does have an index, but it is not a great index.
I used Xilinx ISE Webpack 9i - which is a free down load - the test and simulate the examples.
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