The System Designers Guide to VHDL-AMS: Analog, Mixed-Signal, and Mixed-Technology Modeling

The demand is exploding for complete, integrated systems that sense, process, manipulate, and control complex entities such as sound, images, text, motion, and environmental conditions. These systems, from hand-held devices to automotive sub-systems to aerospace vehicles, employ electronics to manage and adapt to a world that is, predominantly, neither digital nor electronic. To respond to this design challenge, the industry has developed and standardized VHDL-AMS, a unified design language for modeling digital, analog, mixed-signal, and mixed-technology systems. VHDL-AMS extends VHDL to bring the successful HDL modeling methodology of digital electronic systems design to these new design disciplines. Gregory Peterson and Darrell Teegarden join best-selling author Peter Ashenden in teaching designers how to use VHDL-AMS to model these complex systems. This comprehensive tutorial and reference provides detailed descriptions of both the syntax and semantics of the language and of successful modeling techniques. It assumes no previous knowledge of VHDL, but instead teaches VHDL and VHDL-AMS in an integrated fashion, just as it would be used by designers of these complex, integrated systems.

1 Fundamental Concepts
2 Scalar Data Types, Natures and Operations
3 Sequential Statements
4 Composite Data Types and Operations
5 Digital Modeling Constructs
6 Analog Modeling Constructs
7 Design Processing
8 Case Study 1: Mixed-Signal Focus
9 Subprograms
10 Packages and Use Clauses
11 Aliases
12 Generic Constants
13 Frequency and Transfer Function Modeling
14 Case Study 2: Mixed-Technology Focus
15 Resolved Signals
16 Components and Configurations
17 Generate Statements
18 Case Study 3: DC-DC Power Converter
19 Guards and Blocks
21 Files and Input/Output
22 Attributes and Groups
23 Case Study 4: Communication System
24 Miscellaneous Topics
25 Integrated System Modeling
26 Case Study 5: RC Airplane System
A Using SPICE Models in VHDL-AMS
B The Predefined Package Standard
C IEEE Standard Packages
D Related Standards
E VHDL-AMS Syntax
F Answers to Exercises
G CD-ROM Guide
References
Index