Synopses & Reviews
This book, based on extensive experience teaching VHDL to undergraduate students at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and to engineers in industry through short courses run by Mentor Graphics Corporation, USA, enables students and engineers to master VHDL. Introduction to VHDL covers all aspects of the VHDL language, including the latest information on the VHDL standard as of April 1995 and the fundamentals of design constructs and modelling.
Table of Contents
Preface. Introduction. Hardware design processes. IEEE standard VHDL language. Modelling with VHDL. Objects, data types and operators. Multiple architectures and concurrency. Sequential statements and processes. Sequential modelling and attributes. Conditional assignments, concatenation and case. Arrays, loops and assert statements. Subprograms. Types and arithmetic operations. Type conversions, overloading and resolution functions. Scope, visibility, packages and libraries. TEXTIO, blocks and guard. Structural modelling, generics and generate. Appendices. Index.