"Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design" teaches the basic design techniques for logic circuits. It emphasizes the synthesis of circuits and explains how circuits are implemented in real chips. Fundamental concepts are illustrated by using small examples, which are easy to understand. Then, a modular approach is used to show how larger circuits are designed. VHDL is used to demonstrate how the basic building blocks and larger systems are defined in a hardware description language, producing designs that can be implemented with modern CAD tools. This book emphasizes CAD through the use of Altera's Quartus II CAD software, a state-of-the-art digital circuit design package. This software produces automatic mapping of designs written in VHDL into Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs).
Chapter 1: Design Concepts;
Chapter 2: Introduction to Logic Circuits;
Chapter 3: Implementation Technology;
Chapter 4: Optimized Implementation of
Logic Functions;
Chapter 5: Number Representation and Arithmetic Circuits;
Chapter 6: Combinational-Circuit Building Blocks;
Chapter 7: Flip-Flops,
Registers, Counters, and a Simple Processor;
Chapter 8: Synchronous
Sequential Circuits;
Chapter 9: Asynchronous Sequential Circuits;
Chapter 10:
Digital System Design;
Chapter 11: Testing of Logic Circuits;
Chapter 12:
Computer Aided Design Tools; Appendix A VHDL Reference; Appendix B Tutorial 1
- Using Quartus II CAD Software; Appendix C Tutorial 2 - Implementing
Circuits in Altera Devices; Appendix D Tutorial 3 - Physical Implementations
in a PLD; Appendix E Commercial Devices; Answers
Zvonko Vranesic (Toronto, Canada) Professor of Computer Engineering at Toronto University, Canada.
