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The Student's Guide to VHDL (Systems on Silicon) [Paperback]

Peter J. Ashenden (Author)
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January 15, 1998 1558605207 978-1558605206 1

VHDL is a language for describing digital electronic systems. A vital, efficient step in the system design process, VHDL allows for the design and simulation of a hardware system prior to it actually being manufactured.
This new book provides a tutorial
introduction to the fundamental modeling features of VHDL and shows how the features are used for the design of digital systems.

Offering the same clear, accessible style as The Designer's Guide to VHDL, The Student's Guide is designed as a main text for introductory VHDL courses, and as a supplementary text for courses that require VHDL-based project work, such as computer architecture, digital design, and digital logic courses. This new condensed text also serves as a quick, self-teaching guide for practicing engineers who need to learn only the basics of VHDL.

* On-line resources include code for case studies.
* Numerous exercises that are coded for difficulty and expected solution time. * Solutions to the level one exercises are included in the book for self-testing.
* An appendix citing the differences between the 1987 standard and the 1993 standard which is described in the book.


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VHDL is a language for describing digital electronic systems. A vital, efficient step in the system design process, VHDL allows for the design and simulation of a hardware system prior to it actually being manufactured.
This new book provides a tutorial
introduction to the fundamental modeling features of VHDL and shows how the features are used for the design of digital systems.

Offering the same clear, accessible style as The Designer's Guide to VHDL, The Student's Guide is designed as a main text for introductory VHDL courses, and as a supplementary text for courses that require VHDL-based project work, such as computer architecture, digital design, and digital logic courses. This new condensed text also serves as a quick, self-teaching guide for practicing engineers who need to learn only the basics of VHDL.


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  • On-line resources include code for case studies.
  • Numerous exercises that are coded for difficulty and expected solution time.
  • Solutions to the level one exercises are included in the book for self-testing.
  • An appendix citing the differences between the 1987 standard and the 1993 standard which is described in the book.

About the Author

Peter J. Ashenden received his B.Sc.(Hons) and Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He was previously a senior lecturer in computer science and is now a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. His research interests are computer organization and electronic design automation. Dr. Ashenden is also an independent consultant specializing in electronic design automation (EDA). He is actively involved in IEEE working groups developing VHDL standards, is the author of The Designer's Guide to VHDL and The Student's Guide to VHDL and co-editor of the Morgan Kaufmann series, Systems on Silicon. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (January 15, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1558605207
  • ISBN-13: 978-1558605206
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,565,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars This Book Is Not Good For Students, October 22, 1999
This review is from: The Student's Guide to VHDL (Systems on Silicon) (Paperback)
This book only suitable for someone who has already had the idea of programming VHDL. It mentions only the syntax of single instructions, and lacks example circuits to simulate. The author seems don't know that students are not familiar with VHDL programming structure and need more examples to follow. After reading the whole book, I still could not succeed in compliling my VHDL scripts, and waste my time in reading error messages on VHDL simulator. Finally, I duscarded the book and bought "VHDL for Programmable Logic" as my textbook, which helps me alot but mentions little testbench programming.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Only syntax, use as a reference not as a first text on VHDL, June 22, 2005
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This review is from: The Student's Guide to VHDL (Systems on Silicon) (Paperback)
This book can only be used as a reference. It describes the syntax of VHDL but does not really explain its semantics through examples. If you have never used VHDL, this book will not help you that much -- it is not met for a beginner.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars let the rating be your judge, September 22, 2000
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"ttoriz" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Student's Guide to VHDL (Systems on Silicon) (Paperback)
A competent text for VHDL language & syntax, but not intended for hardware design. One is expected to have some design background upon using this text. Therefore, the text should have been titled as a "Syntax Guide to VHDL."

Good price, but so little to offer. My advice is to buy the "Designer's Guide to VHDL." I ended up getting this textbook to use as reference after using the student version (I sold the student version back). It is the exact same textbook with extra added feature...kinda like the Toyota Camry DLX version of the Camry platform!

Overall, there are other textbooks better than Ashenden's....ones that have more design-based examples such as a system arbiter or floppy disk controller. Earlier reviews are correct but a bit harsh.

Try VHDL Primer by J. Bhjasker. Bhasker is an IEEE chair of the HDL Interoperability Group and would an authoritative voice in the HDL community.

Good luck and happy reading!

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"If we are to discuss the topic of modeling digital systems, we first need to agree on what a digital system is." Read the first page
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behavioral architecture body, enclosing architecture body, structural architecture body, equivalent process statement, simplified syntax rule, current working library, end architecture behavioral, unconstrained array type, end entity counter, architecture body corresponding, configuration declaration, corresponding architecture body, end entity adder, signal assignment statement, pulse rejection limit, subelement association, concurrent assertion statement, component instantiation statement, operator xnor, architecture struct, generic interface list, resolved subtypes, sensitivity clause, array type declaration, separate design unit
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Basic Modeling Constructs, Fundamental Concepts
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