Real World FPGA Design with Verilog

• Essential digital design strategies: recognizing the underlying analog building blocks used to create digital primitives; implementing logic with LUTs; clocking strategies, logic minimization, and more
  
• Key engineering tradeoffs, including operating speed vs. latency
  
• Combinatorial and sequential designs
  
• Verilog test fixtures: compiler directives and automated testing
  
• A detailed comparison of alternative architectures and software-including a never-before-published FPGA technology selection checklist

Real World FPGA Design with Verilog introduces libraries and reusable modules, points out opportunities to reuse your own code, and helps you decide when to purchase existing IP designs instead of building from scratch. Essential rules for designing with ASIC conversion in mind are presented.

If you're involved with digital hardware design with Verilog, Ken Coffman is a welcome voice of experience-showing you the shortcuts, helping you over the rough spots, and helping you achieve competence faster than you ever expected!

@ The accompanying CD-ROM contains working demo and student versions of these popular design capture and simulation tools: David Murray's Prism Editor and Simucad's Silos III™ simulator. You also get EMATH (a collection of more than 300 key electrical engineering formulas) and electronic copies of all the Verilog code from this book.

Table of contents

1: Verilog Design in the Real World

2: Digital Design Strategies and Techniques

3: A Digital Circuit Toolbox

4: More Digital Circuits: Counters, RAMs, and FIFOs

5: Verilog Test Fixtures

6: Real World Design: Tools, Techniques, and Trade-offs

7: A Look at Competing Architectures

8: Libraries, Reusable Modules, and IP

9: Designing for ASIC Conversion

Index

The Author