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Hdl Chip Design: A Practical Guide for Designing, Synthesizing & Simulating Asics & Fpgas Using Vhdl or Verilog Reprint Edition

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With this book learn how to: make chip design easier improve your design productivity design efficient synthesizable models write good HDL test harnesses acquire good design and modeling pratices

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0965193438
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978-0965193436
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Reprint
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Doone Pubns
Publication date

March 1, 1998
Language

English
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21.85 x 28.7 x 11.42 inches
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448 pages
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Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that any sufficiently advanced civilization would possess seemingly magical powers to a lesser-advanced one. Technology, and in particular computer technology, has and always will present a Janus head to the world. While delivering enormous capability and freedom, the instrumentality by which that freedom is delivered becomes even more arcane and obscurantist to the users of that technology. The backyard auto mechanic is an artifact. We are all, including most mechanics, relegated to simply filling the gas tank, changing the oil or replacing the occasional black box. And what of those practitioners of these arcane arts, who in designing and building the devices which channel electrons to the exacting demands of industry and consumers seem to take on almost a mantle of priesthood? Any priesthood needs a catechism, and Douglas J. Smith's HDL Chip Design might well fit that role. This publication is designed as an introduction to and reference on using the two industry standard hardware description languages (HDL's) VDHL and Verilog to design, simulate and synthesize Applications-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate-Arrays (FPGA). Emphasis for modeling is at the RT (register transfer) level, using a top-down design method. This reviewer approached this text as a student with a physics background and an interest in glimpsing the inner sanctum of chip design and came away impressed with its clarity, depth, and no-nonsense approach. This is not a book for the fainthearted neophyte, but a challenging and rewarding introduction to HDL chip design, and a treasury as a reference book to the practicing professional. -- From Independent Publisher

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Doone Pubns; Reprint edition (March 1, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0965193438
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0965193436
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.85 x 28.7 x 11.42 inches

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mossygreen

A huge help in getting oriented on HW synthesis ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2020

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I come at the subject from a software background, having written lots of code in lots of languages. The other works on Verilog (mainly Palnitkar) that I've read portions of want to teach me "how to program" and make vague allusions to what can actually be synthesized. That has left me unsure where those boundaries really are and why.

This book walks you through things for both VHDL and Verilog, but directly addresses what is and is not synthesizable and what is a grey area. For many of the code snippets, it goes so far as to show you the result of synthesis at the gate level (wires, AND/OR's, NAND/NOR's, XOR's, XNOR's, etc.) - so you can check your understanding of things at as low a level as you'd like.

This, coupled with advice on how to avoid the toolchain inferring latches, when to assign initial/default values, etc., has really helped me clear away some fog on this subject.

My one issue with the book is its simultaneous treatment of VHDL and Verilog. The book is a little more cumbersome than it would otherwise be (at least on a first read) by having these interleaved. On a second reading, or if I knew more, the interleaving would probably be beneficial.

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2021

Nice to have book.

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Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2014

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This book is great for the beginner to advanced user. It has many examples. Only complaint is that it is not the most current revision but that is ok.

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Joe Fockler

HDL Chip Design

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2009

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An excellent reference book and in remarkably good condition. I ordered this book and VHDL by Douglas L. Perry and both arrived in less than a week. I am very pleased with this transaction.

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Alireza Sarvi

Includes essential coverage for both Verilog and VHDL

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2009

The book nicely covers both Veriloh and VHDL in general. However, it doesn't cover any of them deeply. It is essentially a good book for engineers who have background and knowledge in one of the HDLs and need to get familiar with the other one as it has sufficient examples and code comparisons. However, it is not an advanced book in either Verilog or VHDL. For example, it doesn't cover compiler directive commands or transistor level modeling in Verilog. It doesn't compare and analyze the synthesis results of different coding styles and different optimization approaches either. Unfortunately, the indexing of the book is very poor and doesn't help you if you need to find something quickly.

Overall, this is a good book to have if you need to switch between Verilog and VHDL and need to compare and grab fundamental concepts.

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davez

A good book to learn Verilog and VHDL at once

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2009

This book places Verilog and VHDL code side by side and makes learning both languages simultaneously easy. It also shows the synthesized the circuits. It is easy to lose sight of the logic circuits that the HDL tries to describe, especially for people whose background is not electrical. This book brings circuit reality back from the HDL abstraction.

Despite of the claim that "Its accuracy has been verified through machine-processing of all the examples, and by leading industry experts." the book contains a number of errors in the example code.

The book binding is not good; the book falls a part easily. Mine has to go in a binder now.

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Unique coverage of both Verilog and VHDL

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2008

This book is a unique text on several levels, providing information rarely found in most academic treatments of the subject targeted at beginning students.

It covers and compares VHDL and Verilog impartially, describing their differences, strengths and weaknesses.

It has side by side VHDL and Verilog code - if you know one language, this is an excellent reference to the other language. My copy of the book was used by several engineers to cross train themselves in Verilog or VHDL.

Code is given for practical, real world circuits. From multiplexers to FSM to ALU, it is all in there. Each "class" of circuit is given its own chapter and covered in depth. The FSM chapter is 74 pages, for example.

There are many illustrations of the resulting synthesized logic. A picture is worth a thousand words, and seeing the result of different coding styles is very instructive. For example, coded one way, you get asynchronous resets, coded another, you get synchronous set/reset on your flipflops.

Beyond just a cookbook of VHDL and Verilog reference code, the book does cover such topics as scan test structures, simulation, hierarchial design, but these topics do not receive an in-depth coveraqe. There is an entire chapter dedicated to writing test harnesses, again with side-by-side code for VHDL and Verilog.

My copy saw use in multiple real world projects, by multiple, experienced engineers. It was most often used by VHDL (or Verilog) experts to learn Verilog (or VHDL). It was also used as a reference for coding particular structures. Quickly providing the answer to questions like "how do I code a carry lookahead in Verilog?" Eventually, I had to stop loaning it out as the pages began to fall out from the high volume of use. Unfortunately, it is no longer in print, so I have to use it very carefully, and coworkers are forced to struggle with inferior texts for reference.

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Ken Shiring

why you should buy this book

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 1999

I am a designer who has worked heavily in both VHDL and Verilog. I have read the other VHDL/Verilog books by Ashenden, Armstrong, Perry, Skahill, and Palnitkar, and this is the definitely the best. It shows by example major concepts you can't get from acedemic texts.
The most important thing about this book is the way it shows you how the synthesis tool interprets your code, which is the single most important aspect of VHDL/Verilog coding. It saves you the frustration of finding out by trial and error, and shows you ways of avoiding nasty synthesis problems.
This book is a must for any serious designer's library, and great for starters as well.

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