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 | | Verilog Digital Computer Design: Algorithms Into Hardware (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design Series' Sub Series: PH Signal Integrity Library) by Mark Arnold ISBN-10: 9780136392538 ISBN-10: 0-13-639253-9 ISBN-13: 9780136392538 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-639253-8 Paperback 1998-07-09 Prentice Hall PTR Find Lowest Price |
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ASM and Verilog is a bad mix. The author obviously is trying to force Verilog and ASM notation into the same book. The result is the implicit use of Verilog states which in effect results in unmanagable Verilog spaghetti code. Having a background in both hardware design and software consulting the Verilog code in the book is terrible. It can be compared to a jumble of assembly language without any comments of structure - sure, if you know the background of the design (i.e. the ASM charts) you might see why the code might work but the Verilog code by itself is not readable! If you do some research you'll quickly see that ASM charts are not widely used these days. Most engineers in the industry are using well defined moore state machines because they are easy to understand and maps very well to case statements in Verilog. I will now skim through the rest of the book to see if there might be some content NOT related to ASM charts that might be worth picking up... | ||
Gets you off to a running start I got this book as a quick tutorial on the Verilog language. After just a day or two with this book and a compiler to play with, I had the level of skill that I wanted. The Verilog language description is just one chapter in this book, though, and not even the longest one. This is lots more than just a language book. It also shows a higher level of design than most students see in their first few logic courses. The example developed in the book's later sections works up to a supersclar ARM processor core! This book is not about hooking up a few gates and latches. It actually starts to address problems of practical size and complexity. Big problems really are different from small ones, and I was very happy to see techniques for the larger systems. That said, beginning logic designers may find the book frustrating. It works at a high conceptual level and fast pace. The author assumes that the reader already has good command of the basics of boolean logic, synchronous design, and computer architecture. Initially, I just wanted a competent language description. I got that, plus some worthwhile design technique. Best of all, I did not have to sit through yet another lesson in the baby steps of logic design. | ||
enlightening! this book is an insightful and exciting introduction to hardware design, especially to those like me with a software background. the author illuminates the difference between hardware and software specification, and demonstrates how his "implicit" (RTL) approach works well for (synthesis of) pipelined CPU designs. the only deficit is that some of the free tools listed in the appendix are no longer available. | ||
Not a great first book on Verilog Although the book does cover most of the basics in Verilog, its terrible organization of Verilog topics renders the book almost useless as a good reference to the Verilog language. Stick with Palnitkar's book for this purpose. As far as I have seen the author's implicit style of Verilog code is not recommended in the industry, nor could I find any compelling reason why it should be. The author's use of ASMs is very good and a useful tool when mastered. The information regarding computer design is solid but having a copy of the classics by Hennessy and Patterson nearby is always useful. I would recommend this book to the Verilog designer that is interested in computer design but not as a first book on either topic. | ||
Not a good first Verilog book. Although the book does cover most of the basics in Verilog, its terrible organization of Verilog topics renders the book almost useless as a good reference to the Verilog language. Stick with Palnitkar's book for this purpose. As far as I have seen the author's implicit style of Verilog code is not recommended in the industry, nor could I find any compelling reason why it should be. The author's use of ASMs is very good and a useful tool when mastered. The information regarding computer design is solid but having a copy of the classics by Hennessy and Patterson nearby is always useful. I would recommend this book to the Verilog designer that is interested in computer design but not as a first book on either topic. | ||