Abstract Intention of the Authors Book Structure Tutorial Reference Workshop CD ROM Authors Contact

The VHDL Reference  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd  ISBN: 0-471-89972-0  Table of Contents

Intention of the Authors 

Book Structure 

Tutorial 

 

The tutorial section is tailored especially for beginners. It explains the VHDL syntax together with the principles of digital hardware design for simulation and synthesis. The content is provided in the form of commented slides. A concise representation of the essential information is explained in detail in the corresponding comment sections. This format is especially useful for learning and teaching VHDL. An additional chapter covers VHDL-AMS, the new standard for modelling and simulating mixed signal devices.

Reference 

 

The reference section provides in depth coverage of the VHDL standard for digital systems in a user friendly way.  In addition to detailed syntax descriptions several examples of usage are given as well.

Workshop 

 

The design workshop confronts the reader with an actual design task. This allows beginners to put their VHDL skills into practice. The circuit is partitioned into several modules focussing on different aspects of the language.

CD ROM 

• HTML Versions of the reference (with search function) and workshop
• texteditors with VHDL syntax highlighting packages:
emacs (Solaris, HPUX) and vim (Solaris, HPUX, WIN*)
• demo software for simulating and synthesising VHDL models from Model Technology:

- ModelSim Xilinx Edition Version 5.3
- FPGA Advantage 3.0
- Renoir 99.6
- ModelSim SE/PE 5.3b
- LeonardoSpectrum 1999.1h
• VHDL Development System from Lucent Technologies (Solaris/HPUX; coming soon: Linux version)

VHDL projects often have a complex hierarchy consisting of a large number of files. VGuide visualizes the exact state and availability of the local set of source files with respect to the project hierarchy.
 

The system supports ... project administrators managing the project directory structure, specifying the project hierarchy, controlling the access permissions, observing the project development, building project releases and VHDL developers developing VHDL code using the XEmacs VHDL editor extension, checking the VHDL code (syntactic and semantic VHDL errors; VHDL coding standard rules; sensitivity list consistency, unused VHDL objects; dead code detection; ...), formatting the VHDL code according to the coding standard

Authors 

• Ulrich Heinkel (WWW)
• Martin Padeffke (WWW)
• Werner Haas
• Thomas Bürner
• Herbert Braisz (WWW)
• Thomas Gentner (WWW)
• Alexander Graßmann (WWW)

Contact 

Lehrstuhl für Rechnergestützten Schaltungsentwurf Paul-Gordan-Straße 5  91052 Erlangen (Germany)

 
Contact person:

Name:	Martin Padeffke
Phone:	++49 9131 85 23100
Fax:	++49 9131 85 23111
Email:	vhdl@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
WWW:	http://www.vhdl-online.de

 

Lucent Technologies  Thurn- und Taxisstraße 10  90411 Nuremberg (Germany)

Contact person:

Name:	Ulrich Heinkel
Phone:	++49 911 526 2057
Fax:	++49 911 526 3983
Email:	heinkel@lucent.com