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Digital Systems Design With Vhdl and Synthesis : An Integrated Approach
K. C. Chang

Digital Systems Design with VHDL and Synthesis presents an integrated approach to digital design principles, processes, and implementations to help the reader design much more complex systems within a shorter design cycle. This is accomplished by introducing digital design concepts, VHDL coding, VHDL simulation, synthesis commands, and strategies together. The author focuses on the ultimate product of the design cycle: the implementation of a digital design. VHDL coding, synthesis methodologies and verification techniques are presented as tools to support the final design implementation. Readers will understand how to apply and adapt techniques for VHDL coding, verification, and synthesis to various situations.

Published: Jan 1999, ISBN: 0769500234. Category: Tutorial & Reference.
More info from the publisher at http://www.computer.org/cspress/catalog/bp00023.htm
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Designer's Guide to Vhdl
Peter J. Ashenden

The book is organized so that it can either be read cover to cover for a comprehensive tutorial or be kept deskside as a reference to the language. Each chapter introduces a number of related concepts or language facilities and illustrates each one with examples. Scattered throughout the book are four case studies, which bring together preceding material in the form of extended worked examples. All of the examples and case studies, complete with test drivers for running the VHDL code, are available via the World Wide Web. In addition, each chapter is followed by a set of rated exercises.

Published: Dec 1995, ISBN: 1558602704. Category: Tutorial & Reference.
More info from the publisher at http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/users/petera/designers-guide/DG.html
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Vhdl : Analysis and Modeling of Digital Systems
Zainalabedin Navabi 

Complete with coverage of the latest VHDL93 standard, this edition offers engineers a thorough guide to the use of VHDL hardware description language in the analysis, simulation, and modeling of complicated microelectronic circuits. Extensive worked problems and examples listed in Verilog as well as VHDL set this edition apart from other VHDL texts.

Published: Oct 1997, ISBN: 0070464790. Category: Tutorial.
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A VHDL Primer, Third Edition
J. Bhasker

The power of VHDL-without the complexity! Want to leverage VHDL's remarkable power without bogging down in its notorious complexity? Get A VHDL Primer, Third Edition. This up-to-the-minute introduction to VHDL focuses on the features you need to get results-with extensive practical examples so you can start writing VHDL models immediately. Written by Jayaram Bhasker, one of the world's leading VHDL course developers, this best-selling guide has been completely updated to reflect the popular IEEE STD_LOGIC_1164 package.

Published: Sep 1998, ISBN: 0130965758. Category: Tutorial.
More info from the publisher at http://www.phptr.com/ptrbooks/ptr_0130965758.html
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A VHDL Synthesis Primer, Second Edition
J. Bhasker

See the details of how VHDL gets translated into logic gates in this book. Also, see how hardware elements are described in synthesizable VHDL. Over 100 illustrations and 3500 lines of VHDL code! This book is a must primer for anyone who is beginning to learn synthesis using VHDL. A chapter on verification explains the many causes of simulation mismatches between pre and post synthesis models and on how to avoid these. Modeling guidelines are also provided to help improve synthesis results. Describes the NUMERIC_BIT and NUMERIC_STD packages and uses these packages in the examples.

Published: Aug 1998, ISBN: 0965039196. Category: Tutorial.
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HDL Chip Design
A Practical Guide for Designing, Synthesizing and simulating ASICs and FPGAs using VHDL or Verilog

Douglas J. Smith

This book won the 1997 small press award for Science and Engineering. Shows equivalent VHDL and Verilog models side-by-side followed by a common synthesized circuit implementation. Contains a chapter devoted to worked design problems and their solutions. It is a true practical guide that contains over 160 fully complete modeled examples in both VHDL and Verilog which cover a broad spectrum of design applications.

Published: Jun 1996, ISBN: 0965193438. Category: Tutorial.
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A Guide to VHDL Syntax
Based on the New IEEE Std 1076-1993
J. Bhasker

VHDL is becoming the defacto standard as an electronic hardware description language--yet the bible of VHDL, the large, difficult to use manual, is exceptionally cumbersome. Designed to alleviate such problems and frustrations, this guide describes the complete syntax of the IEEE Std. 1076-1993 version of VHDL--showing the complete syntax of major VHDL constructs and sub-constructs in an easy-to-read manner.

Published: Oct 1994, ISBN: 0133243516. Category: Reference.
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