Description: 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Design Process.- 1.2 Levels of Abstraction.- 1.3 Design Tools.- 1.4 VHSIC Hardware Description Languages.- 1.5 Simulation.- 1.6 Synthesis.- 1.7 Summary.- 2 Basic Structures in VHDL.- 2.1 Entity Declarations.- 2.2 Architectures.- 2.3 Packages.- 2.4 Configurations.- 2.5 Design Libraries.- 2.6 Summary.- 3 Types, Operators and Expressions.- 3.1 Data Objects.- 3.2 Data Types.- 3.3 Operators.- 3.4 Operands.- 3.5 Summary.- 4 Sequential Statements.- 4.1 Variable Assignment Statements.- 4.2 Signal Assignment Statements.- 4.3 If Statements.- 4.4 Case Statements.- 4.5 Null Statements.- 4.6 Assertion Statements.- 4.7 Loop Statements.- 4.8 Next Statements.- 4.9 Exit Statements.- 4.10 Wait Statements.- 4.11 Procedure Calls.- 4.12 Return Statements.- 4.13 Summary.- 5 Concurrent Statements.- 5.1 Process Statements.- 5.2 Concurrent Signal Assignments.- 5.3 Conditional Signal Assignments.- 5.4 Selected Signal Assignments.- 5.5 Block Statements.- 5.6 Concurrent Procedure Calls.- 5.7 Concurrent Assertion Statements.- 5.8 Summary.- 6 Subprograms and Packages.- 6.1 Subprograms.- 6.2 Packages.- 6.3 Summary.- 7 Modeling at the Structural Level.- 7.1 Component Declarations.- 7.2 Component Instantiations.- 7.3 Generate Statements.- 7.4 Default Bindings.- 7.5 Configuration Specifications.- 7.6 Configuration Declarations.- 7.7 Modeling a Test Bench.- 7.8 Summary.- 8 Modeling at the RT Level.- 8.1 Combinational Logic.- 8.2 Latches.- 8.3 Designs with Two Phase Clocks.- 8.4 Flip-Flops.- 8.5 Synchronous Sets And Resets.- 8.6 Asynchronous Sets And Resets.- 8.7 VHDL Templates for RTL circuits.- 8.8 Registers.- 8.9 Asynchronous Counters.- 8.10 Synchronous Counters.- 8.11 Tri-State Buffers.- 8.12 Busses.- 8.13 Netlist of RTL Components.- 8.14 Summary.- 9 Modeling at the FSMD Level.- 9.1 Moore Machines.- 9.2 Asynchronous Mealy Machines.- 9.3 Synchronous Mealy Machines.- 9.4 Separation of FSM and Datapath.- 9.5 An FSM with a Datapath (FSMD).- 9.6 Communicating FSMs.- 9.7 Summary.- 10 Modeling at the Algorithmic Level.- 10.1 Process and Architecture.- 10.2 Wait Statements.- 10.3 Synchronous Reset.- 10.4 Asynchronous Reset.- 10.5 Registers and Counters.- 10.6 Simple Sequential Circuits.- 10.7 Algorithms.- 10.8 Process Communication.- 10.9 Summary.- 11 Memories.- 11.1 Memory Read/Write at the RT Level.- 11.2 Memory Inference at the Algorithmic Level.- 11.3 Summary.- 12 VHDL Synthesis.- 12.1 VHDL Design Descriptions.- 12.2 Constraints.- 12.3 Technology Library.- 12.4 Delay Calculation.- 12.5 The Synthesis Tool.- 12.6 Design Space Exploration.- 12.7 Synthesis Directives.- 12.8 Summary.- 13 Writing Efficient VHDL Descriptions.- 13.1 Software to Hardware Mapping.- 13.2 Variables and Signals.- 13.3 Using minimum bit width.- 13.4 Using effective algorithms.- 13.5 Sharing complex operators using module functions.- 13.6 Specifying don't care conditions.- 13.7 Writing low level code.- 13.8 Summary.- 14 Practicing Designs.- 14.1 Bit Clock Generator.- 14.2 Traffic Light Controller.- 14.3 Vending Machine.- 14.4 Black Jack Dealer Machine.- 14.5 Designing a Stack Computer.- References.

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