Practical Digital Design: An Introduction to VHDL

Length: 440 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Publication Date: 2022-07-15
ISBN-10: 1612497667
ISBN-13: 9781612497662
Sales Rank: #3457939 (See Top 100 Books)

The VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) is one of the two most popular languages used to design digital logic circuits. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the syntax and the most commonly used features of VHDL. It also presents a formal digital design process and the best-case design practices that have been developed over more than twenty-five years of VHDL design experience by the author in military ground and satellite communication systems. Unlike other books on this subject, this real-world professional experience captures not only the what of VHDL, but also the how. Throughout the book, recommended methods for performing digital design are presented along with the common pitfalls and the techniques used to successfully avoid them. Written for students learning VHDL for the first time as well as professional development material for experienced engineers, this book’s contents minimize design time while maximizing the probability of first-time design success.

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PRACTICAL DIGITAL DESIGN
Title
Copyright
Dedication
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
	Target Audience
	A Brief History of Digital Design
	The Need for a Hardware Description Language
	A Brief Tour of a VHDL Model
CHAPTER 2 SIGNALS, TIME, AND THE SIMULATION CYCLE
	Signals
		Events
		Drivers
	Delta Time
	The Simulation Cycle
CHAPTER 3 THE VHDL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT
	Modeling Styles
	Design Flow
	Data Types
		Type Definition
		Vector Data Types
	Operators and Precedence
	Design Libraries
	Predefined Packages
		STANDARD Package
		STD_LOGIC_1164 Package
		NUMERIC_STD Package
		TEXTIO Package
	Type Conversion
	Type Qualification
	Attributes
	VHDL Language Versions
	Coding Style
		Vertical Alignment
		VHDL Identifier Naming Rules
		Comments
CHAPTER 4 DECLARATIONS
	Syntax Notation
	Object Declaration Syntax
	Custom Type Declarations
		Integer Types
		Floating Point Types
		Enumerated Types
		Array Types
		Record Types
		Physical Types
		Access Types
	Alias Declarations
CHAPTER 5 LIBRARIES AND DESIGN UNITS
	Library Units
		Entity Declaration
			Ports
			Generics
		Architecture Declaration
		Package Declaration
		Package Body Declaration
		Configuration Declaration
	Design Units
	Context Clause
	Summary
CHAPTER 6 CONCURRENT STATEMENTS
	Conditional Signal Assignment Statement
	Selected Signal Assignment Statement
	Waveform Specification
		Delay Models
	Generate Statement
	Component Instantiation
	Concurrent Assertion Statement
		Component Declaration
		Configuration Specification
		Component Instantiation Statement
		Direct Entity Instantiation
	Block Statement
	Process Statement
	Summary
CHAPTER 7 SEQUENTIAL STATEMENTS
	Null Statement
	Wait Statement
	If Statement
	Case Statement
	Loop Statement
		Loop Control Statements
	Assertion and Report Statements
	Signal Assignment
	Variable Assignment
	Summary
CHAPTER 8 THE PROCESS STATEMENT
	Process Review
	Combinatorial Logic
	Level Sensitive Latches
	Clocked Logic
	Process Examples
		Register Files
		Shift Registers
		Adders
		Counters
		State Machines
		Memory Arrays
	Process Construction Guidelines
	Summary
CHAPTER 9 MODELING CASE STUDIES
	Modeling Style
	Binary Adder
		Behavioral Model
		Synthesizable Model
		Structural Model
		Summary
		Engine Management System
CHAPTER 10 SUBPROGRAMS
	Functions
		Return Statements
		Examples
		Overloading
		Pure versus Impure Functions
	Procedures
		Return Statements
		Parameter Passing Details
		Signal Parameters
		Concurrent Procedure Calls
		Procedures as Functions
	Summary
CHAPTER 11 SIMULATION AND TEST BENCHES
	Simulation
		Simulation Phases
	Test Benches
		Test Bench Control
		Races
		Input Drivers
		Output Monitors
	Test Bench Example
	Test Bench Types
		Directed Testing
		Constrained Random Testing
		Golden Vectors
		Combination Test Benches
	Summary
CHAPTER 12 TEST BENCH DEVELOPMENT
	Test Bench Templates
	Regression Testing
	Test Suites
	Code Coverage
	Summary
CHAPTER 13 TEST BENCH CASE STUDIES
	Clocked Full Adder
	Engine Management System
	Summary
CHAPTER 14 LOGIC SYNTHESIS
	Synthesis Phases
	Synthesis Steps
		Synthesis
		Implementation
		Implementation Checks
		Device Programming
		Quartus Prime Synthesis Steps
	Summary
CHAPTER 15 ASIC AND FPGA TECHNOLOGY
	Digital Logic Technology
	CMOS Technology
	ASIC Implementation
	Gate Arrays
	FPGAs
	Summary
CHAPTER 16 SYNTHESIS CODE EXAMPLES
	Concurrent Logic
	Data Multiplexers
	Register Files
	Shift Registers
	Adders
		Addition
		Subtraction
		Overflow Protection
		Addition/Subtraction
	Counters
	Clock Dividers
	Loop Unrolling
	Tri-State I/O Drivers
	A More Complex Example
	Summary
CHAPTER 17 SPECIALIZED CODE EXAMPLES
	FPGA Resources
	Multipliers
	Multiply/Accumulate
	RAM Blocks
		Distributed RAM
		Block RAM
	ROM Blocks
	RAM Design Examples
		RAM-Based Shift Register
		RAM-Based FIFO Buffer
	Summary
CHAPTER 18 STATE MACHINES
	State Machine Basics
	State Machine Design
	Inputs and Outputs
	Design Example
	Summary
CHAPTER 19 FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION
	The Functional Decomposition Process
	Examples
	Summary
CHAPTER 20 FILTER DESIGN EXAMPLE
	Background
	Functional Decomposition
	Logic Design
	Test Bench Development
	Logic Synthesis
	Architecture Improvement
	Summary
CHAPTER 21 DESIGN REUSE
	Generics
	Test Benches
	Data Handshaking
	Design Example
	Summary
APPENDIX A CODING STYLE GUIDELINES
APPENDIX B FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
	SPI Interface
APPENDIX C VHDL RESERVED WORDS
STATEMENT INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX