The Designer's Guide to VHDL (Systems on Silicon) By Peter J. Ashenden ISBN: 9781558602700 Published: 1995 Number of Pages: 668 Edition: 1st Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Description: VHDL may sound like a new Internet language, but it really stands for VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) Hardware Definition Language. VHDL borrows ideas from software engineering (architectural, behavior, and formal models, as well as modular design) and is used to design today's custom integrated circuits, from cell phones to microwave ovens and even CPUs. Peter Ashenden's The Designer's Guide to VHDL shows you how to use this language to write a hardware design, which you can then test in a simulator before "synthesizing" it into an actual hardware design in silicon. The book begins with the basics of VHDL, which, like any software language, has keywords, operators, flow control statements, and programming conventions. Next, the author introduces his first case study--a "pipelined multiplier accumulator," which simulates a CPU register. He then moves on to more complicated models, such as a design for a complete CPU (the DLX processor, which is used as a model for educating future CPU designers). More advanced aspects of VHDL follow, including guard signals, abstract data types, and even file I/O. A final case study (for a "queuing network") puts these components into practice. The book closes with a discussion of "synthesizers"--additional software tools that convert a VHDL specification into silicon--and how these tools impose design limits. The appendices include Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) enhancements to VHDL, which have increased the design language's power. Although most of us won't ever need to design our own integrated circuit, this book shows how it's done. Engineering students who need to master VHDL during a semester-length course, will find Ashenden's guide to be indispensable--and written in an accessible style rarely found in engineering texts.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  95033228
   - LC control Number: 95033228

International Standard Book Number: 1-55860-270-4: 1558602704 (pbk.): 1558602704 :

Level of Bibliographic Control and Coding Detail: abd/abd(abd)

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: TK7888.3
   - Item number: .A863 1995
   - Item number: .A863 1996

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number:  20
   - Edition number: 20
   - Classification number: 621.39/2

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Ashenden, Peter J.

Title Statement
   - Title: designer's guide to VHDL
   - Title: The designer's guide to VHDL /
   - Remainder of title: by Peter J. Ashenden
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Peter J. Ashenden.
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Peter J. Ashenden..

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: San Francisco
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: San Francisco, CA :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: San Francisco, Calif. :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Morgan Kaufmann
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Morgan Kaufmann,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 1995.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 1996.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c1996.

Projected Publication Date: 9510

Physical Description
   - Extent: 010
   - Extent: p. cm.
   - Extent: xxii, 688 p. :
   - Extent: xxii,688p.
   - Other physical details: ill.
   - Other physical details: ill. ;
   - Dimensions: 24 cm.
   - Dimensions: 26cm

Dates of Publication and/or Sequential Designation: 1996

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 675-676) and index.
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Source of heading or term: larpcal.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Circuitos integrados
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Electronic digital computers
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Electronic digital computers-computer simulation
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: VHDL
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: VHDL (Computer hardware description language)
   - General subdivision: Computer simulation.

Holding Institution: TEZU_784025