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VHDL and FPLDs in Digital Systems Design, Prototyping and Customization

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Zoran Salcic

    1. The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Basic Modeling and Designing with VHDL

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to VHDL

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 3-21

    3. VHDL-Language Basic Elements

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 23-39

    4. Advanced Data Types

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 41-73

    5. Processes and Sequential Statements

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 75-90

    6. Concurrency and Behavioral Modeling

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 91-113

    7. Structural VHDL

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 115-133

    8. Advanced Topics in VHDL

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 135-144

    9. VHDL in Simulation- Test Benches

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 145-166

    10. Synthesizing Logic From VHDL Description

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 167-203

  3. FPLDs as Prototyping and Implementation Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. FPLDS: Architectures and Examples of Devices

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 207-246

    3. Design and Prototyping Environments for FPLDS

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 247-268

    4. Rapid Prototyping Systems for FPLDS

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 269-290

    5. Using VHDL to Design for Altera’s Fplds

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 291-336

  4. Examples of Applications and Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-337
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    2. Examples of VHDL Designs

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 339-384

    3. Flexswitch — a High-Speed ATM Switch

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 385-436

    4. FLIX — a Custom-Configurable Microcomputer

      • Zoran Salcic
      Pages 437-487
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About this book

This book represents an attempt to treat three aspects of digital systems, design, prototyping and customization, in an integrated manner using two major technologies: VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) as a modeling and specification tool, and Field-Programmable Logic Devices (FPLDs) as an implementation technology. They together make a very powerful combination for complex digital systems rapid design and prototyping as the important steps towards manufacturing, or, in the case of feasible quantities, they also provide fast system manufacturing. Combining these two technologies makes possible implementation of very complex digital systems at the desk. VHDL has become a standard tool to capture features of digital systems in a form of behavioral, dataflow or structural models providing a high degree of flexibility. When augmented by a good simulator, VHDL enables extensive verification of features of the system under design, reducing uncertainties at the latter phases of design process. As such, it becomes an unavoidable modeling tool to model digital systems at various levels of abstraction.

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`The Glossary and Index are good. The section references and selected reading is short... The book is detailed and thorough, and will be useful in helping designing digital systems. It is clearly written and with well-organized text. Overall, this book was a pleasure to read. I recommend it to my students and colleagues from both the electrical engineering and the computer science communities.'
Microelectronics Journal, 30 (1999)

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  • The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Zoran Salcic

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