Ashenden, P: Student‘s Guide to VHDL

The Student‘s Guide to VHDL is a condensed edition of The er‘s Guide to VHDL, the most widely used textbook on VHDL for digital system modeling. The Student‘s Guide is targeted as a supplemental reference book for computer organization and digital courses.Since publication of the first edition of The Student‘s Guide, the IEEE VHDL and related standards have been revised. The er‘s Guide has been revised to reflect the changes, so it is appropriate that The Student‘s Guide also be revised. In The Student‘s Guide to VHDL, 2nd Edition, we have included a case study illustrating an FPGA-based flow. The aim is to show how VHDL modeling fits into a flow, starting from high-level and proceeding through detailed and verification, synthesis, FPGA place and route, and final timing verification. Inclusion of the case study helps to better serve the educational market. Currently, most college courses do not formally address the details of flow. Students may be given informal guidance on how to proceed with lab projects. In many cases, it is left to students to work it out for themselves. The case study in The Student‘s Guide provides a reference flow that can be adapted to a variety of lab projects.