Design Recipes for FPGAs: Using Verilog and VHDL [Paperback]

Peter Wilson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 17, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0750668458 | ISBN-13: 978-0750668453

This book provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, the book gives 'easy-to-find' design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which engineers can easily match and apply to their application.

The 'easy-to-find' structure begins with a design application to demonstrate the key building blocks of FPGA design and how to connect them, enabling the experienced FPGA designer to quickly select the right design for their application, while providing the less experienced a 'road map' to solving their specific design problem.

Written in an informal and 'easy-to-grasp' style, this invaluable resource goes beyond the principles of FPGA s and hardware description languages to actually demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized, simulated and downloaded onto an FPGA. In addition, the book provides advanced techniques to create 'real world' designs that fit the device required and which are fast and reliable to implement. An accompanying CDROM contains code, test benches and simulation command files for ModelSim.

This book will be an indispensable, well-thumbed resource for FPGA designers of all levels of experience.

* A rich toolbox of practical FGPA design techniques at an engineer's finger tips
* Easy-to-find structure that allows the engineer to quickly locate the information to solve their FGPA design problem, and obtain the level of detail and understanding needed
* Includes a CDROM containing code, test benches and simulation files for ModelSim

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Design Recipes for FPGAs is an excellent volume for engineers who work with FPGAs either regularly or occasionally... the book provides a handy shelf reference with examples for many useful functional blocks, ranging from relatively small illustrative syntactic and structural examples to more complex concepts. Whether you work in VHDL occasionally or every day, you'll find practical help in this book." - Lewin Edwards, Design Engineer and Technical Author

About the Author

Dr. Peter Wilson is part of the Electronic Systems Design research group within the School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. He worked for many years as a Senior Design Engineer in industry with Ferranti plc (Edinburgh, Scotland) and as an EDA technical specialist with Analogy Inc. (Beaverton, Oregon), before joining the University of Southampton in 1999. He currently lectures on analogue electronics, integrated circuit design, cryptography, and System-on-Chip design techniques and is leading the School's new MSc in system on a chip. He is also a consultant for Integra Design Ltd. In various aspects of embedded systems including design and modeling with VHDL, Verilog, Verilog-AMS and VHDL-AMS.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Newnes (July 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750668458
• ISBN-13: 978-0750668453
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,414,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent book, no online source, June 13, 2009

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MStump (San Francisco, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Design Recipes for FPGAs: Using Verilog and VHDL (Paperback)

The book provides decent explanations of common building blocks oft needed in FPGA designs. The only annoyance is that the book does not always provide full source listing, instead you must rely on the incomplete CD. If you happen to lose the CD as I did then you're out of luck as the code is not available on either the publisher or author's web sites.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book - Title is a little misleading though, December 11, 2009

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Cougarbob (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Design Recipes for FPGAs: Using Verilog and VHDL (Paperback)

Design Recipies for FPGAs is a very good high-level description of some simple to advanced applications of FPGAs, and best for anyone starting into FPGA design. There is some light coverage of VHDL, FPGA technology, and descriptions of several applications in this book. Looking at the title though, and even the table of contents, I expected a little less discussion of VHDL (etc) and a lot more detail on the applications. When I think of a "recipe", I think of a detailed process of putting something together. The applications described here are mostly overviews. The VGA adapter for example caught my eye - as I have recently had interest in designing one for a project I was working on. I found a good overview of VGA controllers, and a general description of how they work, but was looking for something a bit more meaty; say, block diagrams with samaple code, information on how to interface to some of the TFT panels, interfacing to alternate display types, detailed suggestinos and examples of incorporating on-chip memory, etc. Basically a good comprehensive parallel discussion of the hardware and code involved to get graphics onto a screen with code and diagrams that can be adapted per application.

Overall, the book is a good one. There are some very good ideas in there. I would recommend this book highly to an entry level designer, but maybe not to a seasoned engineer looking for drop-in solutions. For the more experienced with FPGAs, it may serve well a brush-up reference and an idea generator, but it will only get you so far - the rest is up to you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book, lots of typos, November 2, 2007

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M. Anderson "SoCal SurfKing" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Design Recipes for FPGAs: Using Verilog and VHDL (Paperback)

I really like this book and the way it is put together. However it has a ton of typos and the CD only contains portions of the files in the book. Once he gets the errors fixed I would give it 4 or 5 stars.