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A Guide to VHDL

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If you want to build a solid foundation in VHDL, this is the book to buy. I absolutely loved it.

I just borrowed the book from the library and I am reading through it to understand VHDL. It is good for my background: I know more than ten programming languages, know digital logic design, and is familiar with Verilog. I had read a few other VHDL books, but was kind of confused by their writing styles.

I like this book because it tells the rationals behind the VHDL design. It is focused on the design of the language itself. The other books I read tried to cover many things like microprocessor design or DSP design, but didn't clarify why VHDL uses concepts like entity, architecture, process, etc. For a professional, it is fast to learn VHDL from this book.

But this book is possibly not a good book for a student because of its focus. It lacks detail (not a good reference book) and doesn't have many examples.

As the author, I wrote this book as an introduction for
someone who wanted to learn to use this design language. It is
not particulary suitable as a reference guide, but instead
is organized to help you grasp the fundamental relationships
and organization of the VHDL language. Even for experienced
programmers some of the concepts are a bit hard at first.
We try also to include the motivations and uses for various
features. There are a number of simple examples included.
I hope you enjoy and use this book.
stan mazor

My major complaint against this book is that it is not useful as a reference. The index of only six pages is hopelessly devoid of useful information. Nearly all keywords listed in the index merely point to a table of keywords, with no explanation or further reference. Not in the index: "<=" (which has two meanings), "explicit literal", "aggregate", and "assignment statement", for example. Index often references wrong page. Typos ("discreet", "scaler") abound.