Verilog Digital System Design with CDROM (McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering) [Hardcover]

Zainalabedin Navabi (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0070471649 | ISBN-13: 978-0070471641 | Publication Date: July 1999 | Edition: Bk&CD Rom

Hardware description languages are used to design high density VLSI, allowing designers to put millions of transistors on a single substrate. Verilog is closing in on VHDL as the most popular of the hardware description languages. This is a tutorial in designing with Verilog. Each major chapter features in-depth Verilog examples of the coding described, and all the examples are assembled into a final full CPU design. The CD-ROM includes a Verilog simulator and all examples worked in the book.

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The book comes with a CD that contains Verilog and VHDL simulators, lecture material, and a web based electronic indexing tool that we call Verilog Circuit Navigator. To see how the navigator works, please send email to [e-mail] for a demo version.

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LEARN VERILOG DESIGN WITH A MASTER

This rigorous tutorial shows electronics designers and students how to apply Verilog in sophisticated digital systems design, using over a hundred skill-building, fully worked-out, and simulated examples. Completely updated, the second edition covers Verilog 2001, new synthesis standards, testing and testbench developments, and the new OVL verification library. You'll find out just what's involved in using Verilog hardware description language (HDL) in digital system design. HDL expert Zain Navabi explains the design process in logical sequence -- the way it's done in the real world.

Moving from simple concepts to the more complex, Navabi interprets Verilog constructs related to design stages and design abstractions, including behavioral description, dataflow description, and structure description. With emphasis on the concepts of concurrency and delay in hardware, the text helps you grasp the essence of HDLs. Clear specification of learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter and end-of-chapter problems focus attention on key concepts.

If mastery of design with Verilog is the goal, Zain Navabi's Verilog Digital System Design is the tool.

MUST-HAVE CD INCLUDED:

• Verilog and VHDL simulators
• Synthesis tools
• Mixed-level logic and Verilog design environment
• FPGA design tools and environments from Altera
• Related tutorials and standards
• All worked examples from the book, including testbench and simulation-run reports for every example
• Complete CPU examples with Verilog code and software tools
• OVL verification libraries and tutorials

THE BEST VERILOG TUTORIAL -- UPDATED:

• Verilog 2001, step by step in examples and text
• OVL verification library
• New synthesis standards
• New chapter on testbench development and verification
• Problem set in each chapter encourages review and test of key concepts
• Instructor's manual and lecture slides available for class use

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 453 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; Bk&CD Rom edition (July 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070471649
• ISBN-13: 978-0070471641
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #802,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Graduate Student, September 13, 2005

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Praba S "PS" (MA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Verilog Digital System Design with CDROM (McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering) (Hardcover)

I have used this book in my graduate level course. As a intermediate level person, I have found this book very useful to understand the design process, simulation, synthesis and etc. I would strongly recommend this book for both beginners and intermediate level programmers, as concept of HDL is written clearly in an understandable way. A person who is interested in the Digital Circuit Design would find an excellent flow between each chapters, and informations in each chapters are described very well. On the other hand, I found that the book is kind of outdated, and someone who wants to use this book as a Reference Book may not find it useful.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Still searching for a good book on Verilog!, April 6, 2000

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Communication ASIC Designer (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Verilog Digital System Design with CDROM (McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering) (Hardcover)

Where do I start? I was looking for a well-written, well-illustrated, well-organized, example-rich, pertinent guide to writing synthesizeable Verilog code. This book scores low on all of those fronts. Perhaps there are engineers who find this book useful, but if you design sequential logic, heavy with state machines and data flows, such as those found in digital communication systems, you won't be happy with this book. It is more of an academic guide than a practical engineer's guide.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars learn testbenching!, June 18, 2006

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This review is from: Verilog Digital System Design: Register Transfer Level Synthesis, Testbench, and Verification (Hardcover)

Verilog is probably the most common package for modelling digital circuits. Navabi provides detailed instructions on how to use it for many types of circuits. We see how Verilog can provide different levels of modelling. From the Register Transfer Level to doing higher level synthesis. This lets you simulate either a small circuit, to great depth, or to scale to much larger sets of transistors.

The testbenching ability of Verilog is emphasised. Vital in checking the validity of performance of your circuits, before you tape out to silicon. One of Verilog's strengths is how its testbenching can save you time and money. Provided you take full advantage of it.