Real World FPGA Design with Verilog
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0130998516 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 291 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has more than 17 years of experience designing commercial and industrial electronics and avionics, and 6 years as a Lecturer at Cogswell College North (now Henry Cogswell College). KEN COFFMAN is president of Bytech Services (bytechservices) and a Contract Electrical Engineer (and Verilog zealot) in the Seattle area.
Sloppy and incoherent, some useful information Daniel T Brown This book addresses how to use Verilog to create working FPGA designs. It touches on topics such as clocking, implementation of specific types of logic blocks, and design flow. The examples are written using Verilog.The writing is sloppy, the organization is incoherent, and the explanations are incomplete. A reader may find the book worthwhile if: he or she already knows most of the material presented, has a few problems that are addressed by the book, can find the discussion of that problem in the book, and the discussion is one of those that is complete and accurate. Otherwise, the book is a waste of time and money.The . Original approach to Verilog - but needs tune up When I started reading this book, I was excited about its potential. Written by an engineer, it did not focus on the language, but on real world engineering issues (how about an HDL design book that talks about robustness, metastability, etc. on its first pages?).The book does address many engineering issues, as well as real FPGA features and constraints that for many engineers take years to learn. Many of this information is there.But, and it's a big but, the information is not presented clearly. There are too many bugs for a teaching book. And the organization of the text is not good.Anyway, I would recommend this book . "It scratched my itch." according to John Gill. This book fit nicely in the gap I noticed between books on digital design with Verilog that were written from a structured academic standpoint and product specific user manuals and application notes. To learn effective FPGA design from books one would desire to have this book along with the other two; lacking "Real World FPGA Design" one would have to ask colleagues lots of questions and learn the rest the hard way.I am using this book as I 'retool' as a FPGA Digital Design Engineer since full-custom design jobs here are drying up since few companies can afford the investment of time and money to bring custom devices to m
If you're involved with digital hardware design with Verilog, Ken Coffman is a welcome voice of experience-showing you the shortcuts, helping you over the rough spots, and helping you achieve competence faster than you ever expected!. Start by walking a typical Verilog design all the way through to silicon; then, review basic Verilog syntax, design; simulation and testing, advanced simulation, and more. Ken Coffman presents no-frills, real-world design techniques that can improve the stability and reliability of virtually any design. You'll find irreverent, yet rigorous coverage of what it really takes to translate HDL code into hardware-and how to avoid the pitfalls that can occur along the way. Real World FPGA Design with Verilog guides you through every key challenge associated with designing FPGAs and ASICs using Verilog, one of the world
Thus, the established designers already knew Verilog and had no reason to learn VHDL, and the new designers could pick it up easier than they could pick up VHDL. ASICs aren't reprogrammable; the foundry casts their functionality into silicon. The CD-ROM also includes the demonstration version of David Murray's excellent Prism Editor. A special price of USD $40.00 was negotiated for purchaser's of this book for those who choose to register the Prism Editor. We use tools that are cheap or free on Windows-based PCs. Errors can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in silico