VHDL for Logic Synthesis

**Making VHDL a simple and easy-to-use hardware description language** Many engineers encountering VHDL (very high speed integrated circuits hardware description language) for the first time can feel overwhelmed by it. This book bridges the gap between the VHDL language and the hardware that results from logic synthesis with clear organisation, progressing from the basics of combinational logic, types, and operators; through special structures such as tristate buses, register banks and memories, to advanced themes such as developing your own packages, writing test benches and using the full range of synthesis types. This third edition has been substantially rewritten to include the new VHDL-2008 features that enable synthesis of fixed-point and floating-point hardware. Extensively updated throughout to reflect modern logic synthesis usage, it also contains a complete case study to demonstrate the updated features. Features to this edition include: * a common VHDL subset which will work across a range of different synthesis systems, targeting a very wide range of technologies * a design style that results in long design lifetimes, maximum design reuse and easy technology retargeting * a new chapter on a large scale design example based on a digital filter from design objective and design process, to testing strategy and test benches * a chapter on writing test benches, with everything needed to implement a test-based design strategy * extensive coverage of data path design, including integer, fixed-point and floating-point arithmetic, logic circuits, shifters, tristate buses, RAMs, ROMs, state machines, and decoders Focused specifically on logic synthesis, this book is for professional hardware engineers using VHDL for logic synthesis, and digital systems designers new to VHDL but familiar with digital systems. It offers all the knowledge and tools needed to use VHDL for logic synthesis. Organised in themed chapters and with a comprehensive index, this complete reference will also benefit postgraduate students following courses on microelectronics or VLSI/ semiconductors and digital design.Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–5): Chapter 2 Register?Transfer Level Design (pages 7–17): Chapter 3 Combinational Logic (pages 19–35): Chapter 4 Basic Types (pages 37–61): Chapter 5 Operators (pages 63–84): Chapter 6 Synthesis Types (pages 85–150): Chapter 7 Std\_Logic\_Arith (pages 151–165): Chapter 8 Sequential VHDL (pages 167–189): Chapter 9 Registers (pages 191–211): Chapter 10 Hierarchy (pages 213–241): Chapter 11 Subprograms (pages 243–277): Chapter 12 Special Structures (pages 279–299): Chapter 13 Test Benches (pages 301–326): Chapter 14 Libraries (pages 327–336): Chapter 15 Case Study (pages 337–367): VHDL (Very high-speed circuit Hardware Description Language) is firmly established in an industrial context, and is the worldwide standard for computer-aided electronic system design. This title focuses on logic synthesis, or the design-to-implementation phase of the VHDL cycle in generating the hardware. VHDL for Logic Synthesis was originally written as an introductory and reference text on VHDL for engineers intending to use logic synthesis, but the updated and revised second edition is intended for a broader readership by providing comprehensive coverage of the VHDL language and its use in the process of generating hardware. "Macrocycles: Construction, Chemistry and Nanotechnology Applications is an essential introduction this important class of molecules and describes how to synthesise them, their chemistry, how they can be used as nanotechnology building blocks, and their applications"-- Provided by publisher