Design Recipes for FPGAs: Using Verilog and VHDL

Design Recipes for FPGAs provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, it provides design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which you can easily match and apply to your application. Written in an informal and easy to grasp style, this invaluable resource goes beyond the principles of FPGAs and hardware description languages to demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized, simulated and downloaded onto an FPGA. In addition, the book provides advanced techniques to create ‘real world’ designs that fit the device required and which are fast and reliable to implement.

Table of Contents:
Part 1: Overview 1: Introduction 2: An FPGA Primer 3: A VHDL Primer: The Essentials 4: A Verilog Primer: The Essentials 5: Design Automation of FPGAs 6: Synthesis Part 2: Introduction to FPGA Applications 7: High Speed Video Application 8: Simple Embedded Processors Part 3: Designer’s Toolbox 9: Digital Filters 10: Secure Systems 11: Memory 12: PS/2 Mouse Interface 13: PS/2 Keyboard Interface 14: A Simple VGA Interface 15: Serial Communications Part 4: Optimizing Designs 16: Design Optimization 17: Behavioral Modeling in using HDLs 18: Mixed Signal Modeling 19: Design Optimization Example: DES Part 5: Fundamental Techniques 20: Latches, Flip-Flops, and Registers 21: ALU Functions 22: Finite State Machines in VHDL and Verilog 23: Fixed Point Arithmetic 24: Counters 25: Decoders and Multiplexers 26: Multiplication  27: Simple 7-Segment (LCD) Displays

About the Author :
Peter Wilson is Professor of Electronic Systems Engineering in the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Bath. After obtaining degrees at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh he worked as a Senior Design Engineer with Ferranti, Scotland and then as a Technical Specialist for Analogy, Inc. in Oregon, USA. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Southampton, he joined the faculty and was a member of the Academic staff at the University of Southampton from 2002 till 2015 when he moved to the University of Bath. He has published more than 100 papers and 3 books. Peter Wilson is also a Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer in the UK and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Review :
"...a great book for someone wanting to learn HDL design as the examples are crystal-clear, and it can be hard to find real-world HDL examples on the ‘net. The chapter on a CPU design alone will teach one a lot about coding for FPGAs." --Embedded.com "Design Recipes for FPGAs is an excellent volume for engineers who work with FPGAs either regularly or occasionally... the book provides a handy shelf reference with examples for many useful functional blocks, ranging from relatively small illustrative syntactic and structural examples to more complex concepts. Whether you work in VHDL occasionally or every day, you'll find practical help in this book." --Lewin Edwards, Design Engineer and Technical Author