The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS (The Designer's Guide Book Series) [Hardcover]

Ken Kundert (Author), Olaf Zinke (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1402080441 | ISBN-13: 978-1402080449 | Publication Date: May 2004 | Edition: 1st

The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS presents Verilog-AMS, the new analog and mixed-signal extensions to the widely used Verilog hardware description language.
It starts by describing a rigorous and proven top-down design methodology. Top-down design is widely seen as the key to being able to design very large and complex mixed-signal circuits and it is enabled by Verilog-AMS. Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS are then introduced without assuming that the reader has a background in behavioral modeling. Finally, it includes a comprehensive reference guide for the language.
The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS is extensively cross-referenced and indexed, making it an ideal reference for both Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS. A companion website, www.designers-guide.com, provides electronic copies of all the models used in this book, a library of user-contributed models, a discussion forum, additional documents on simulation and modeling, and other useful material.
The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS is written for analog and mixed-signal designers, particularly those designing larger and more complex circuits.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 270 pages
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston; 1st edition (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402080441
• ISBN-13: 978-1402080449
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pointer to more information, December 11, 2004

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Kenneth S. Kundert - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS (The Designer's Guide Book Series) (Hardcover)

I am one of the authors of this book and I wanted to let you know that if you wished to find out more about it before your ordered it, you can go to its home page, which can be found at http://www.designers-guide.com/Books/. It contains considerably more information about the book, including excerpts.

Amazon would not allow me to post this message to you without giving the book a star rating. So I did my best to provide an unbiased opinion ;-).

-Ken

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to the language & excelent reference, December 21, 2005

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August West - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS (The Designer's Guide Book Series) (Hardcover)

This book is currently the only up-to-date reference book for Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS (the book by Fitzpatrick is very incomplete and way out of date).

It introduces the language by using a series of relatively simple yet useful examples. In doing so it gets you up and running quickly and then builds your knowledge of the language. It takes you through Verilog-A in some depth, then presents enough Verilog-HDL (the digital subset) to give analog designers a workable understanding of Verilog, and then covers Verilog-AMS in depth.

The book has one chapter that acts as a complete reference for the manual for VerilogA/MS and and excellent index. I use the book as a reference as I write models and can always find what I am looking for very quickly.

In short, I recommend it whole-heartily. It is an essential book for anyone that uses Verilog-A or Verilog-AMS.

-August

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An introduction to Verilog AMS, August 13, 2006

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Mark Dickmann (Palm Harbor, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Designer's Guide to Verilog-AMS (The Designer's Guide Book Series) (Hardcover)

I am new to verilog A and even newer to Verilog AMS. I thought the book was a reasonable introduction to the language, but I prefer a longer text with more content. The book is only of moderate length and expensive as seems to be typical of Kluwer texts. There are also some spots where clarity, at least to myself, was lacking. A user will need the Verilog AMS license from Cadence to use this language. Lacking such a license, I was never able to apply the mixed signal info from the text. For the pure Verilog A user who is doing only analog and not mixed signal sims, this book may not offer an advantage over Fitzpatrick's book even though it is newer. For the practicing engineer, this text is a far better way of getting introduced to Verilog AMS than Cadence's cryptic documentation.