Digital Design with RTL Design, VHDL, and Verilog Second Edition by Frank Vahid University of California, Riverside John Wiley and Sons Publishers, 2011 http://www.ddvahid.com   Book's site at Wiley The book's cover graphically depicts Moore's Law.

Unique features

• RTL Design: The only major digital design book to emphasize RTL (register-transfer-level) design, central to the million-gate IC era, while continuing to introduce topics fully bottom-up. Teaches modern "Capture/Convert" top-down design methodology for combinational, sequential, and RTL design.
• Superb examples/figures/text: Student-learning approach with hundreds of examples to motivate and demonstrate concepts, over 600 figures to illustrate ideas, and exceptionally lucid text resulting in highly-positive student and instructor feedback.
• Flexible HDL coverage: Hardware description languages in separate chapter to clearly distinguish basic design concepts from present-day implementation mechanisms; HDL sections/examples correspond with earlier chapters to enable integrated coverage. Inclusion of VHDL, Verilog, and even SystemC provides instructor flexibility while also showing essential HDL similarities. Optional low-cost 180-page VHDL and Verilog accompanying books support in-depth coverage.
• Exceptional PowerPoint slides: Over 600 author-created slides serve as a serious and useful teaching aid, with extensive use of graphics and animations for illustration. Nearly all book examples and figures included.
• Design vs. optimization: First digital design book to provide modern distinction between basic design and optimization, as well as tradeoffs. Optimizations/tradeoffs in a separate chapter, sections correspond to earlier chapters.
• FPGAs: The clearest section found anywhere on how FPGAs implement circuits as bitstreams.
• New in second edition: Improved RTL introduction, clearer definition of capture/convert process, and improved description/examples/exercises throughout.

Preview Items

• Table of Contents     Preface     Back cover
• Slides (from first edition; second edition coming soon)
  • Sample animated slides -- Instructor's website contains complete PowerPoint slides, about 700 slides in all, nearly all book figures included, almost all slides have graphics, with animations extensively and appropriately used to illustrate key concepts, and with care taken to ensure animated slides are still readable when printed.
  • Complete set of slides in PDF 2-per-page format (Note: these slides are provided only for evaluation by instructors and for convenient access by students). Chpt 1 Chpt 2 Chpt 3 Chpt 4 Chpt 5 Chpt 6 Chpt 7 Chpt 8 Chpt 9

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Errata and clarifications

• "Digital Design" Second Edition Errata and Clarifications


• "VHDL for Digital Design" First Edition Errata and Clarifications
• "Verilog for Digital Design" First Edition Errata and Clarifications


• "Digital Design" First Edition Errata and Clarifications

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