Introduction to VHDL
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.
xiv, 482 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780412731303, 0412731304
1069406301
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.