Engineering

Digital Testing  [PTG: PRENTICE HALL PROFESSIONAL]   (Electrical and Computing Engineering)

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About the Author

Samir Palnitkar is the President of Jambo Systems, Inc., a leading ASIC design and verificationservices company and a Verisity Verification Alliance partner. He previously founded IntegratedIntellectual Property, Inc., an ASIC company that was acquired by Lattice Semiconductor, Inc.,and Obongo, Inc., an e-commerce software firm that was acquired by AOL Time Warner, Inc. Heholds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kanpur; a Master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington,Seattle; and an MBA degree from San Jose State University, San Jose, California. Heis a recognized authority on e, Verilog HDL, modeling, verification, logic synthesis, andEDA-based methodologies in digital design. He has worked extensively with design andverification on various successful microprocessor, ASIC, and system projects; worked on manye-based projects; and trained hundreds of students on e since 1997.

Design Verification with eSamir Palnitkar

Written for both experienced and new users, DesignVerification with e gives you a broadcoverage of e. It stresses the practical verification perspective of e rather than emphasizing only itslanguage aspects.

This book—

• Introduces you to e-based verification methodologies
• Describes e syntax in detail, including structs, units, methods, events, temporal expressions. and TCMs
• Explains the concepts of automatic generation, checking and coverage
• Discusses the e Reuse Methodology
• Describes essential topics such as coverage driven verification, e verification components (eVCs), and interfacing with C/C++
• Illustrates a complete verification example in e
• Contains a quick-reference guide to the e language
• Offers many practical verification tips

Includes over 250 illustrations, examples, andexercises, and a verification resource list. Learning objectives and summariesare provided for each chapter.

“Mr. Palnitkar illustrates how and why the power ofthe everification language and the underlying Specman Elite testbench automationtool are used to develop today's most advanced verification environments. Thisbook is valuable to both the novice and the experienced e user. I highlyrecommend it to anyone exploring functional verification”

—Moshe Gavrielov

Chief Executive Officer

Verisity Design, Inc.

“This book demonstrates how e can be used to createstate-of-the-art verification environments. An ideal book to jumpstarta beginner and a handy reference for experts”

—Rakesh Dodeja

Engineering Manager

Intel Corporation

“The book gives a simple, logical, and well-organizedpresentation of ewith plenty of illustrations. This makes it an ideal text book for universitycourses on functional  verification”

—Dr. Steven Levitan

 Professor

 Department of Electrical Engineering

 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

“This book is ideal for readers with little or no e programming experience. It gives the reader athorough and practical understanding of not only the e language, but also how to effectively use thislanguage to develop complex functional verification environments.”

—Bill Schubert

Verification Engineer

ST Microelectronics, Inc.

“The flow of the book is logical and gradual. Plentyof illustrations and examples makes this an ideal book for e users. A must-have for both beginners andexperts”

—Karun Menon

Staff Engineer

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

PRENTICEHALL

ProfessionalTechnical Reference

UpperSaddle River, NJ  07458

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ISBN:0-13-144309-0

This title is a member of the The Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design Series' Sub Series: PH Signal Integrity Library Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design Series' Sub Series: PH Signal Integrity Library Series page.

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  ASIC Handbook, The
  Horspool & Gorman
  ©2001 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 256 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130915580 | ISBN-13: 9780130915580
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  Design Verification with e
  Palnitkar
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 416 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131413090 | ISBN-13: 9780131413092
  Suggested retail price: $89.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $60.52  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The book presents a logical progression of e-based topics. It starts with the basics, such as functional verification methodologies, e basics and then gradually builds on to bigger examples and eventually reaches advanced topics, such as coverage driven functional verification, re-usable verification components and C/Cplusplus Interface. Thus, the book is useful to e users with varying levels of expertise.

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  Design-For-Test For Digital IC's and Embedded Core Systems
  Crouch
  ©2000 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 347 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130848271 | ISBN-13: 9780130848277
  Suggested retail price: $98.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $73.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The purpose of this book is to introduce the basic concepts of test and design-for-test (DFT), and to then address the application of these concepts with an eye toward the trade-offs of the engineering budgets (area, frequency, power, etc.), the business drivers, and the cost drivers. This practical guide on the test and Design-for-test topics has been developed along the lines of a just what you need to know and how to do it guide that explains the topic, the trade-offs, and relates the topic to the design flow.

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  Digital Communications Test and Measurement: High-Speed Physical Layer Characterization
  Derickson & Müller
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 976 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132209101 | ISBN-13: 9780132209106
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  Digital Signal Integrity: Modeling and Simulation with Interconnects and Packages
  Young
  ©2001 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 560 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130289043 | ISBN-13: 9780130289049
  Suggested retail price: $98.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $66.64  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For advanced courses in digital design.

  This state-of-the-art book provides students with techniques for predicting and achieving target performance levels. Gives students all the theory, practice, general signal integrity issues, and leading-edge experimental techniques they need to accurately model and simulate those interconnections and predict real-world performance.

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  Digital System Design with SystemVerilog
  Zwolinski
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 408 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137045794 | ISBN-13: 9780137045792
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  Digital System Design with SystemVerilog, Safari
  Zwolinski
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement; 408 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137046391 | ISBN-13: 9780137046393
  Online purchase price: $100.00Students can purchase immediate access at http://safari.informit.com.
  

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  Engineering the Complex SOC: Fast, Flexible Design with Configurable Processors
  Rowen
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 496 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131455370 | ISBN-13: 9780131455375
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  Essential Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
  Birnbaum
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 256 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131828290 | ISBN-13: 9780131828292
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  FPGA-Based System Design
  Wolf
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Bound w/CD-ROM; 576 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0131424610 | ISBN-13: 9780131424616
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  Appropriate for all introductory-to-intermediate level courses in FPGAs, VLSI, and/or digital design.

  Digital designs once built in custom silicon are increasingly implemented in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), but effective FPGA system design requires a strong understanding of VLSI issues and constraints, as well as an understanding of new techniques developed for FPGAs. Writing specifically for FPGA designers, Princeton Universitys Wayne Wolf first introduces the essentials of VLSI: fabrication, circuits, interconnects, combinational and sequential logic design, system architectures, and more. He then shows how to reflect this VLSI knowledge in a state-of-the-art design methodology that leverages FPGAs most valuable characteristics while mitigating its limitations. Wolf surveys FPGA fabrics, introduces essential FPGA concepts, and compares multiple approaches to solving basic problems in programmable logic. He offers comprehensive coverage of combinational and sequential logic design, including methods for specifying and optimizing digital logic to address size, speed, and power consumption. Along the way, he introduces the basics of Verilog, VHDL, and leading tools for optimizing logic and sequential machine designs. Wolf then turns to the structure of large digital systems, introducing the sophisticated register-transfer design methodology and presenting a simple DSP case study that addresses a wide variety of design problems. The book concludes with a detailed look at large-scale systems built with FPGAs, including platform FPGAs and multi-FPGA systems. Includes selected content from Wolfs widely-acclaimed book Modern VLSI Design.

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  FPGA-Based System Design
  Wolf
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 576 pp | Available on Demand   What's this?
  ISBN-10: 0137033486 | ISBN-13: 9780137033485
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  Appropriate for all introductory-to-intermediate level courses in FPGAs, VLSI, and/or digital design.

  Digital designs once built in custom silicon are increasingly implemented in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), but effective FPGA system design requires a strong understanding of VLSI issues and constraints, as well as an understanding of new techniques developed for FPGAs. Writing specifically for FPGA designers, Princeton Universitys Wayne Wolf first introduces the essentials of VLSI: fabrication, circuits, interconnects, combinational and sequential logic design, system architectures, and more. He then shows how to reflect this VLSI knowledge in a state-of-the-art design methodology that leverages FPGAs most valuable characteristics while mitigating its limitations. Wolf surveys FPGA fabrics, introduces essential FPGA concepts, and compares multiple approaches to solving basic problems in programmable logic. He offers comprehensive coverage of combinational and sequential logic design, including methods for specifying and optimizing digital logic to address size, speed, and power consumption. Along the way, he introduces the basics of Verilog, VHDL, and leading tools for optimizing logic and sequential machine designs. Wolf then turns to the structure of large digital systems, introducing the sophisticated register-transfer design methodology and presenting a simple DSP case study that addresses a wide variety of design problems. The book concludes with a detailed look at large-scale systems built with FPGAs, including platform FPGAs and multi-FPGA systems. Includes selected content from Wolfs widely-acclaimed book Modern VLSI Design.

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  From ASICs to SOCs: A Practical Approach
  Nekoogar & Nekoogar
  ©2003 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130338575 | ISBN-13: 9780130338570
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  This book describes the practical aspects of ASIC and SOC (System-On-A-Chip) design and verification. The book lays out the fundamental techniques for designing and verifying ASICs and SOC. It covers the integration of IPs (intellectual property) which is the fundamental concept in SOC design.

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  Handbook of Digital Techniques for High-Speed Design: Design Examples, Signaling and Memory Technologies, Fiber Optics, Modeling, and Simulation to Ensure Signal Integrity
  Granberg
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 976 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013142291X | ISBN-13: 9780131422919
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  Hardware Design Verification: Simulation and Formal Method-Based Approaches
  Lam
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 624 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137010923 | ISBN-13: 9780137010929
  Suggested retail price: $115.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $78.20  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Two groups of people are essential to a successful design project: a design team

  and a verification team. Designers usually have formal training from schools.

  Many colleges have comprehensive curricula on logic design, ranging from

  introduction to digital design to advanced computer architecture. On the

  contrary, most verification engineers learn their trade on the job; few were

  educated as verification engineers in academia, although many schools are

  beginning to teach verification curriculum. In fact, a majority of verification

  engineers started out as designers and gradually transited to design verification.

  Unlike design techniques and methodologies, a broad range of verification

  knowledge is loosely organized and informally acquired through hands-on

  experiences. Further, the horizon of verification has been expanding at a rapid

  pace; verification landscape is evolving every six months with new techniques,

  standards, and tools. Nevertheless, there are principles and techniques that

  have survived the test of time and prove to be corner stones of verification.

  This book attempts to collect and organize a wide range of digital design

  verification techniques and methodologies commonly used in industry and

  present them in a systematic fashion.

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  Hardware Design Verification: Simulation and Formal Method-Based Approaches
  Lam
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 624 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0131433474 | ISBN-13: 9780131433472
  Suggested retail price: $110.00  Net price: $74.80  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Two groups of people are essential to a successful design project: a design team

  and a verification team. Designers usually have formal training from schools.

  Many colleges have comprehensive curricula on logic design, ranging from

  introduction to digital design to advanced computer architecture. On the

  contrary, most verification engineers learn their trade on the job; few were

  educated as verification engineers in academia, although many schools are

  beginning to teach verification curriculum. In fact, a majority of verification

  engineers started out as designers and gradually transited to design verification.

  Unlike design techniques and methodologies, a broad range of verification

  knowledge is loosely organized and informally acquired through hands-on

  experiences. Further, the horizon of verification has been expanding at a rapid

  pace; verification landscape is evolving every six months with new techniques,

  standards, and tools. Nevertheless, there are principles and techniques that

  have survived the test of time and prove to be corner stones of verification.

  This book attempts to collect and organize a wide range of digital design

  verification techniques and methodologies commonly used in industry and

  present them in a systematic fashion.

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  High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic
  Johnson & Graham
  ©1993 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0133957241 | ISBN-13: 9780133957242
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  This best-selling book focuses on the field of knowledge lying between digital and analog circuit theory. The book helps to short cut the learning curve involved in mastering the art of digital design.

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  High Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic
  Johnson
  ©2003 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 800 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013084408X | ISBN-13: 9780130844088
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  This advanced-level reference presents a complete and unified theory of signal propagation for all metallic media from cables to pcb traces to chips. It includes numerous examples, pictures, tables and wide-ranging discussion of the high-speed properties of transmission lines.

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  Instructor's Manual for Modern VLSI Design: IP Based Design, 4/E
  Wolf
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 86 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131364502 | ISBN-13: 9780131364509
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  Jitter, Noise, and Signal Integrity at High-Speed
  Li
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 400 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132429616 | ISBN-13: 9780132429610
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  Modern VLSI Design: IP-Based Design, 4/E
  Wolf
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 656 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137145004 | ISBN-13: 9780137145003
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  Modern VLSI Design: IP-Based Design, Safari, 4/E
  Wolf
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement; 656 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137010060 | ISBN-13: 9780137010066
  Online purchase price: $104.00Students can purchase immediate access at http://safari.informit.com.
  

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  Modern VLSI Design: System-on-Chip Design, 3/E
  Wolf
  ©2002 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 640 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130619701 | ISBN-13: 9780130619709
  Suggested retail price: $75.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $51.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering courses that cover the design and technology of very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits and systems. May also be used as a VLSI reference for professional VLSI design engineers, VLSI design managers, and VLSI CAD engineers.

  Modern VSLI Design provides a comprehensive “bottom-up” guide to the design of VSLI systems, from the physical design of circuits through system architecture with focus on the latest solution for system-on-chip (SOC) design. Because VSLI system designers face a variety of challenges that include high performance, interconnect delays, low power, low cost, and fast design turnaround time, successful designers must understand the entire design process. The Third Edition also provides a much more thorough discussion of hardware description languages, with introduction to both Verilog and VHDL. For that reason, this book presents the entire VSLI design process in a single volume.

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  MOSFET Modeling With SPICE: Principles and Practice
  Foty
  ©1997 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 653 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132279355 | ISBN-13: 9780132279352
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  Written by one of the industry's leading experts, MOSFET Modeling with SPICE brings together all the FET models used in mainstream versions of SPICE, providing a comprehensive, practical, and easy-to-read reference for the practicing circuit designer. In addition, this book explores the development of the various technologies available and presents the current standards in an easily-referenced form.

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  Power Integrity Analysis and Management for Integrated Circuits
  Nair & Bennett
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 360 pp | Estimated Availability : 04/09/2010
  ISBN-10: 0137011229 | ISBN-13: 9780137011223
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  Power Integrity Analysis and Management for Integrated Circuits, Safari
  Nair & Bennett
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement; 360 pp | Estimated Availability : 04/15/2010
  ISBN-10: 0137047959 | ISBN-13: 9780137047956
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  Power Integrity Modeling and Design for Semiconductors and Systems
  Swaminathan & Engin
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 496 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136152066 | ISBN-13: 9780136152064
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  Practical FPGA Programming in C
  Pellerin & Thibault
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 464 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131543180 | ISBN-13: 9780131543188
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  During the past few years of tech sector economic decline,which has touched

  the EDA/semiconductor industries, two companies have had consistent

  double digit growth. They are Xilinx and Altera. Their business is FPGA

  design. Advances in FPGA technologies have made FPGA design a low cost

  alternative to very expensive unreconfigurable ASIC design.

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  Printed Circuit Board Designer's Reference; Basics
  Robertson
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 304 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130674818 | ISBN-13: 9780130674814
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  The book shows how to develop the basics of design practices standards and explores different materials and processes in easy to understand terminology. Starting from the design conception, to completion, the author develops all aspects of design. He will also provide the designer with a life long reference for design and terminology.

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  Real World FPGA Design with Verilog
  Coffman
  ©2000 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 291 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130998516 | ISBN-13: 9780130998514
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  Signal Integrity - Simplified
  Bogatin
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 608 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130669466 | ISBN-13: 9780130669469
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  The book presents the important concepts and topics of signal integrity, such as impedance, bandwidth, characteristic impedance, inductance, skin depth and cross talk at an introductory level showing the underlying mechanisms. This book would introduce the reader to each of these terms and what they really mean, without complex mathematics.

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  Signal Integrity Issues and Printed Circuit Board Design
  Brooks
  ©2003 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 432 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013141884X | ISBN-13: 9780131418844
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  This book is primarily aimed at circuit board designers. Typically these people have either no formal engineering education or a 2-year associates degree. A few have formal 4-year degrees and find themselves now designing boards either on a part time basis (as an adjunct to their normal design activities) or perhaps full-time. Almost none of them have ever received any formal education in signal integrity issues as related to board design, principally because almost no such training is offered--anywhere! Therefore, there is a need for a basic, comprehensive text that covers the causes of these problems and their solutions.

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  Solutions Manual
  Granberg
  ©2004 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 152 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131482580 | ISBN-13: 9780131482586
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  Solutions Manual for Hardware Design Verification: Simulation and Formal Method-Based Approaches
  Lam
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 138 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131863916 | ISBN-13: 9780131863910
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  Timing Analysis and Simulation for Signal Integrity Engineers
  Edlund
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 272 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132365049 | ISBN-13: 9780132365048
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  Verilog Designer's Library
  Zeidman
  ©1999 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 432 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130811548 | ISBN-13: 9780130811547
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  Verilog Digital Computer Design: Algorithms Into Hardware
  Arnold
  ©1999 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 592 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136392539 | ISBN-13: 9780136392538
  Suggested retail price: $89.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $66.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For introductory-level courses in Verilog Hardware Description Language. Written by the co-developer of the Verilog Implicit To One hot (VITO) preprocessor, this text introduces the industry standard Verilog Hardware Description Language as a new way to explore enduring concepts in digital and computer design, such as pipelining. It shows how Verilog simulation is a tool for uncovering bugs prior to hardware fabrication, and how Verilog synthesis is a tool for automatically converting source code into hardware. Ideal for designers new to Verilog, it features a consistent design framework using ASM charts, and contains many realistic, practical examples.

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  VHDL Design Representation and Synthesis, 2/E
  Armstrong & Gray
  ©2000 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 651 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130216704 | ISBN-13: 9780130216700
  Suggested retail price: $89.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $66.75  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For senior/graduate-level courses in Advanced Digital Design and Advanced Digital Logic in departments of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science.

  Intended to teach a synthesis-based approach to design using a hardware description language (i.e., VHDL), this text focuses on the synthesis process in how to translate VHDL descriptions into gate level logic. It teaches the VHDL language in detail, describes modeling at three different levels of abstraction (algorithmic, data flow, and gate level), and explains the ASIC Design Process. Illustrations of synthesis with standard cell libraries and FPGAs are given using Synopsys and Xilinx tools.

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  VHDL Primer, A, 3/E
  Bhasker
  ©1999 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 386 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130965758 | ISBN-13: 9780130965752
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  The aim of this book continues to be the introduction of the VHDL language to the reader at the beginner's level. VHDL is a large and verbose language with many complex constructs that have complex semantic meanings and is initially difficult to understand (the US military requires VHDL for device designs, thus explains its popularity vs. other HDLs). The book presents a subset of VHDL consisting of commonly used features that make it both simple and easy to use.

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