Description: This is the first book to apply VHDL - the hardware description language of choice in industry - to undergraduate courses in digital logic. It presents the full range of topics pertaining to digital systems engineering. In addition, author Allen Dewey presents concepts in the context of actual design procedures, explaining in a "top-down" fashion the general engineering process from concept to realization and how specific procedures contribute to this process. The book begins with a discussion of combinatorial and sequential systems and their design, along with logic families and integrated circuits. The author then guides readers through structural and data flow modeling, description of synchronous behavior, and algorithmic modeling of digital systems in VHDL. This "dual track" approach helps readers understand how VHDL can be used to specify digital system designs in a format that is easily processed by computers, thus harnessing the power of design automation technology. Reflecting the author's recognized experience with the increasingly pervasive role of hardware description languages in digital systems engineering, this book defines a new "skill set" that engineering professionals must master in order to design, model, communicate, and implement digital systems.

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