Design Recipes for FPGAs: Using Verilog and VHDL

This book provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, it provides design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which you can easily match and apply to your application. Written in an informal and easy to grasp style, this invaluable resource goes beyond the principles of FPGAs and hardware description languages to demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized, simulated and downloaded onto an FPGA. In addition, the book provides advanced techniques to create ‘real world’ designs that fit the device required and which are fast and reliable to implement.

Examples are rewritten and tested in Verilog and VHDLDescribes high-level applications as examples and provides the building blocks to implement them, enabling the student to start practical work straight awaySingles out the most important parts of the language that are needed for design, giving the student the information needed to get up and running quickly

Part 1: Overview 1: Introduction 2: An FPGA Primer 3: A VHDL Primer: The Essentials 4: A Verilog Primer: The Essentials 5: Design Automation of FPGAs 6: Synthesis

Part 2: Introduction to FPGA Applications 7: High Speed Video Application 8: Simple Embedded Processors

Part 3: Designer’s Toolbox 9: Digital Filters 10: Secure Systems 11: Memory 12: PS/2 Mouse Interface 13: PS/2 Keyboard Interface 14: A Simple VGA Interface 15: Serial Communications

Part 4: Optimizing Designs 16: Design Optimization 17: Behavioral Modeling in using HDLs 18: Mixed Signal Modeling 19: Design Optimization Example: DES

Part 5: Fundamental Techniques 20: Latches, Flip-Flops, and Registers 21: ALU Functions 22: Finite State Machines in VHDL and Verilog 23: Fixed Point Arithmetic 24: Counters 25: Decoders and Multiplexers 26: Multiplication  27: Simple 7-Segment (LCD) Displays