RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL: Coding for Efficiency, Portability, and Scalability 1st Edition

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The skills and guidance needed to master RTL hardware design

This book teaches readers how to systematically design efficient,portable, and scalable Register Transfer Level (RTL) digitalcircuits using the VHDL hardware description language and synthesissoftware. Focusing on the module-level design, which is composed offunctional units, routing circuit, and storage, the bookillustrates the relationship between the VHDL constructs and theunderlying hardware components, and shows how to develop codes thatfaithfully reflect the module-level design and can be synthesizedinto efficient gate-level implementation.

Several unique features distinguish the book:
* Coding style that shows a clear relationship between VHDLconstructs and hardware components
* Conceptual diagrams that illustrate the realization of VHDLcodes
* Emphasis on the code reuse
* Practical examples that demonstrate and reinforce designconcepts, procedures, and techniques
* Two chapters on realizing sequential algorithms in hardware
* Two chapters on scalable and parameterized designs andcoding
* One chapter covering the synchronization and interface betweenmultiple clock domains

Although the focus of the book is RTL synthesis, it also examinesthe synthesis task from the perspective of the overall developmentprocess. Readers learn good design practices and guidelines toensure that an RTL design can accommodate future simulation,verification, and testing needs, and can be easily incorporatedinto a larger system or reused. Discussion is independent oftechnology and can be applied to both ASIC and FPGA devices.

With a balanced presentation of fundamentals and practicalexamples, this is an excellent textbook for upper-levelundergraduate or graduate courses in advanced digital logic.Engineers who need to make effective use of today's synthesissoftware and FPGA devices should also refer to this book.

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The skills and guidance needed to master RTL hardware design

This book teaches readers how to systematically designefficient, portable, and scalable Register Transfer Level (RTL)digital circuits using the VHDL hardware description language andsynthesis software. Focusing on the module-level design, which iscomposed of functional units, routing circuit, and storage, thebook illustrates the relationship between the VHDL constructs andthe underlying hardware components, and shows how to develop codesthat faithfully reflect the module-level design and can besynthesized into efficient gate-level implementation.

Several unique features distinguish the book:

Coding style that shows a clear relationship between VHDLconstructs and hardware components
Conceptual diagrams that illustrate the realization of VHDLcodes
Emphasis on the code reuse
Practical examples that demonstrate and reinforce designconcepts, procedures, and techniques
Two chapters on realizing sequential algorithms inhardware
Two chapters on scalable and parameterized designs andcoding
One chapter covering the synchronization and interface betweenmultiple clock domains

Although the focus of the book is RTL synthesis, it alsoexamines the synthesis task from the perspective of the overalldevelopment process. Readers learn good design practices andguidelines to ensure that an RTL design can accommodate futuresimulation, verification, and testing needs, and can be easilyincorporated into a larger system or reused. Discussion isindependent of technology and can be applied to both ASIC and FPGAdevices.

With a balanced presentation of fundamentals and practicalexamples, this is an excellent textbook for upper-levelundergraduate or graduate courses in advanced digital logic.Engineers who need to make effective use of today's synthesissoftware and FPGA devices should also refer to this book.

About the Author

PONG P. CHU, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Departmentof Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University.He has received grants from both NASA and the National ScienceFoundation, and has taught undergraduate and graduate-level digitalsystems and computer architecture courses for more than a decade.

Hardcover: 694 pages
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press; 1 edition (April 10, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471720925
ISBN-13: 978-0471720928
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Great text for a second course

May 1, 2011

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The world is well populated with books on elementary logic design, Katz's being one of the good ones. Such books present all the basics of hardware logic, registers, computer arithmetic, and maybe a little about a popular hardware description language (HDL), Verilog or VHDL. Then there are the language books that take basic logic concepts and show how to render them in one of the HDLs. Unfortunately, there's not much out there for the student who's mastered the basics, but isn't ready to dive in at the deep end of computer architecture.

Chu's book meets the needs of that advancing student better than any other I know. After introductory chapters that orient the reader and set expectations, Chu dives in with a quick tour of VHDL basics. These 'basics', by the way, cover more detail than some entire texts. The next chapters cover principles and practice of combinational and sequential circuits, state machine design, register transfer level (RTL) design, and hierarchical design, with emphasis throughout on timing and efficient design. For example, sharing of functional units comes up as a topic in itself, something that arises in practice but rarely in the classroom. Toward the end, Chu presents the best discussion of parameterized design I've seen, including fairly advanced use of 'generate' statements and VHDL's alternative architectures. The last chapter covers design considerations for clock distribution and for crossing between clock domains, topics that arise in every non-trivial design and that continue to cause problems for designers.

This book covers its topics better than any other I know. The beginning logic designer's first course has been well covered, and (except for use of HDLs) hasn't changed all that much since about 1980. The digital world has changed dramatically, though, and this book does a great job starting where other texts leave off.

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Great RTL design book

March 19, 2012

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This is a textbook for a university course I'm taking now. I have some background in integration and verification with Verilog from work, but little RTL design. I'd taken a VHDL course way back in my undergrad days and really not liked it at the time, partly due to the terrible textbook way back then. This book is great for learning the VHDL language in a practical usage way. The author doesn't seem to dwell on all possibilities of the language, his focus seems to be on current recommended methods of doing things, and has lots of examples. We have an FPGA based project due most every week, and I'm finding that most of the problems I struggle with at first are discussed in this book, and get me going. I really enjoy the presentation, and I feel that I will be a much better Verilog designer as well. I just wish that, like some of his other books, there was a Verilog equivalent of this book.

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snocyclist

Great content within, but physically poorly made.

May 30, 2012

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I enjoyed the book and gained a fairly robust knowledge of VHDL from it, though I do wish they would consolidate more tables of information, perhaps in an appendix in the back.

However, I just thought I would note that this book is really poorly bound. I have yet to hear of one where the binding wasn't falling apart, amongst my classmates and others. I know this isn't a game-changing factor, but thought it was worth mentioning.

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Good book for class and self study.

February 5, 2017

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Needed this book for an upper level undergraduate class on digital design. I am very glad that I had it, since the teacher was not the best at teaching and there was a little bit of a communication barrier. This book does a good job of teaching VHDL in regards to the RTL level. Which if you are unfamiliar is basically combining adders, memories, clocks, and registers together to create things from processor cores to VGA controllers. The book will be best utilized with some form of FPGA trainer board that you can implement the examples on and reinforce your knowledge by creating small projects.

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Best book on the subject

September 3, 2012

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Pong P. Chu use a very clear language and goes right in the subject.
The book explains in details how to develop and understand a good VHDL code, it shows the hardware that's going to be synthesized by your VHDL code, showing the best practices and the advantages/disadvantages of VHDL constructs and the trade offs (speed/area/propagation delay etc.)

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Awesome... Great price and condition

June 6, 2016

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Book was in very very good condition. 100% satisfied. I feel like product was exceeded my expectations.
I would recommend this seller.

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Recommended!

June 24, 2016

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Good item & fast delivery!

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Five Stars

February 3, 2016

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An excellent resource.

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