Advanced Digital System Design Using Soc Fpgas

This textbook teaches students techniques for the design of advanced digital systems using System-on-Chip (SoC) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The author demonstrates design of custom hardware components for the FPGA fabric using VHDL, with implementation of custom hardware-software interfaces. Readers gain hands-on experience by writing programs and Linux device drivers in C to interact with custom hardware. This textbook enables laboratory experience in the design of custom digital systems using SoC FPGAs, emphasizing computational tasks such as digital signal processing, audio, or video processing.

The book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in electrical, electronics, and communication engineering. The objective of this book is to help the readers to understand the concepts of digital system design as well as to motivate the students to pursue research in this field. Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL) is preferred in this book to realize digital architectures. Concepts of Verilog HDL are discussed in a separate chapter and many Verilog codes are given in this book for better understanding. Concepts of system Verilog to realize digital hardware are also discussed in a separate chapter. The book covers basic topics of digital logic design like binary number systems, combinational circuit design, sequential circuit design, and finite state machine (FSM) design. The book also covers some advanced topics on digital arithmetic like design of high-speed adders, multipliers, dividers, square root circuits, and CORDIC block. The readers can learn about FPGA and ASIC implementation steps and issues that arise at the time of implementation. One chapter of the book is dedicated to study the low-power design techniques and another to discuss the concepts of static time analysis (STA) of a digital system. Design and implementation of many digital systems are discussed in detail in a separate chapter. In the last chapter, basics of some advanced FPGA design techniques like partial re-configuration and system on chip (SoC) implementation are discussed. These designs can help the readers to design their architecture. This book can be very helpful to both undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers.

Advanced Digital Systems Design with Rapid Prototyping on FPGAs using VHDL aims to provide students, researcher, and hardware designers in electrical & computer engineering with a reference manual that covers the main aspects of hardware implementation of complex algorithms in the field of digital technology using FPGAs.

System-on-a-chip (SoC) has become an essential technique to lower product costs and maximize power efficiency, particularly as the mobility and size requirements of electronics continues to grow. It has therefore become increasingly important for electrical engineers to develop a strong understanding of the key stages of hardware description language (HDL) design flow based on cell-based libraries or field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. Honed and revised through years of classroom use, Lin focuses on developing, verifying, and synthesizing designs of practical digital systems using the most widely used hardware description Language: Verilog HDL. Explains how to perform synthesis and verification to achieve optimized synthesis results and compiler times Offers complete coverage of Verilog syntax Illustrates the entire design and verification flow using an FPGA case study Presents real-world design examples such as LED and LCD displays, GPIO, UART, timers, and CPUs Emphasizes design/implementation tradeoff options, with coverage of ASICs and FPGAs Provides an introduction to design for testability Gives readers deeper understanding by using problems and review questions in each chapter Comes with downloadable Verilog HDL source code for most examples in the text Includes presentation slides of all book figures for student reference Digital System Designs and Practices Using Verilog HDL and FPGAs is an ideal textbook for either fundamental or advanced digital design courses beyond the digital logic design level. Design engineers who want to become more proficient users of Verilog HDL as well as design FPGAs with greater speed and accuracy will find this book indispensable.

Design a high-speed SoC while gaining a holistic view of the FPGA design flow and overcoming its challenges. Purchase of the print or kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format. Key FeaturesUse development tools to implement and verify an SoC, including ARM CPUs and the FPGA logicOvercome the challenge of time to market by using FPGA SoCs and avoid the prohibitive ASIC NRE costUnderstand the integration of custom logic accelerators and the SoC software and build themBook Description Modern and complex SoCs can adapt to many demanding system requirements by combining the processing power of ARM processors and the feature-rich Xilinx FPGAs. You'll need to understand many protocols, use a variety of internal and external interfaces, pinpoint the bottlenecks, and define the architecture of an SoC in an FPGA to produce a superior solution in a timely and cost-efficient manner. This book adopts a practical approach to helping you master both the hardware and software design flows, understand key interconnects and interfaces, analyze the system performance and enhance it using the acceleration techniques, and finally build an RTOS-based software application for an advanced SoC design. You'll start with an introduction to the FPGA SoCs technology fundamentals and their associated development design tools. Gradually, the book will guide you through building the SoC hardware and software, starting from the architecture definition to testing on a demo board or a virtual platform. The level of complexity evolves as the book progresses and covers advanced applications such as communications, security, and coherent hardware acceleration. By the end of this book, you'll have learned the concepts underlying FPGA SoCs' advanced features and you'll have constructed a high-speed SoC targeting a high-end FPGA from the ground up. What you will learnUnderstand SoC FPGAs' main features, advanced buses and interface protocolsDevelop and verify an SoC hardware platform targeting an FPGA-based SoCExplore and use the main tools for building the SoC hardware and softwareBuild advanced SoCs using hardware acceleration with custom IPsImplement an OS-based software application targeting an FPGA-based SoCUnderstand the hardware and software integration techniques for SoC FPGAsUse tools to co-debug the SoC software and hardwareGain insights into communication and DSP principles in FPGA-based SoCsWho this book is for This book is for FPGA and ASIC hardware and firmware developers, IoT engineers, SoC architects, and anyone interested in understanding the process of developing a complex SoC, including all aspects of the hardware design and the associated firmware design. Prior knowledge of digital electronics, and some experience of coding in VHDL or Verilog and C or a similar language suitable for embedded systems will be required for using this book. A general understanding of FPGA and CPU architecture will also be helpful but not mandatory.

With the advance of semiconductor and communication technologies, the use of systemon-a-chip (SoC) has become an essential technique to decrease product costs. To design and implement an SoC-based product, it proves necessary to totally or partly rely on the hardware description language (HDL) synthesis flow and field programmable gata array (FPGA) devices or cell libraries. As a consequence, it has become an important attainment for electrical engineers to develop a good understanding of the key issues of HDL design flows based on FPGA devices or cell libraries. To achieve this, this book addresses the need for teaching such a topic based on Verilog HDL and FPGAs. This book, Digital System Designs and Practices: Using Verilog HDL and FPGAs, aim to be used as a text for students and as a reference book for professionals or a self-study book for readers. For classroom use, each chapter includes many worked examples and review questions for helping readers test their understanding of the contents. In addition, throughout the book, an abundance of worked examples are provided for helping readers realize the basic features of Verilog HDL and grasp the essentials of digital system designs as well. The contents of this book largely stem from the course FPGA System Designs and Practices, offered at our campus over the past decade. This course is an undergraduate elective and the first-year graduate course. This book is so structured that it can be used as a sequence of courses, including Hardware Description Language, FPGA System Designs and Practices, Digital System Designs, Advanced Digital System Designs, and others. HDL-based design has become an essential technique for modern digital systems. This book focuses on developing, verifying, and synthesizing designs of practical digital systems using the most widely used hardware description Language: Verilog HDL and FPGAs. The main features of this book are: -- Explains how to perform synthesis and verification to achieve optimized synthesis results and compiler times -- Offers complete coverage of Verilog HDL syntax -- Illustrates the entire design and verification flow using an FPGA case study -- Presents many real-world worked design examples -- Gives readers deeper understanding with review questions in each section and end-of-chapter problems -- Emphasizes design/implementation tradeoff options, with coverage of ASICs and FPGAs

This book presents the methodologies and for embedded systems design, using field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, for the most modern applications. Coverage includes state-of-the-art research from academia and industry on a wide range of topics, including applications, advanced electronic design automation (EDA), novel system architectures, embedded processors, arithmetic, and dynamic reconfiguration.

With the advance of semiconductor and communication industry, the use of system-on-chip (SoC) has become an essential technique to reduce product costs. The development of a good understanding of the key stages of the hardware description language (HDL) design flow based on cell-based libraries or field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices becomes essential. This book addresses the needs for such a topic based on Verilog HDL and FPGAs. The most important features of this book include HDL-based design has become an essential technique for modern digital systems. This book focuses on developing, verifying, and synthesizing designs of practical digital systems using the most widely used hardware description Language: Verilog HDL and FPGAs. The main features of this book include: - Explaining how to perform synthesis and verification to achieve optimized synthesis results and compiler times - Illustrating the entire design and verification flow using an FPGA case study - Emphasizing design/implementation trade-off options, with coverage of ASICs and FPGAs - Providing plentiful worked examples and review questions in each section for readers to test their understanding of the related topics - Giving readers deeper understanding with plentiful review questions in each section and end-of-chapter problems - Incorporating many case studies to help the reader grasp the essentials of practical digital systems to be designed using Verilog HDL and FPGAs - Highlighting Verilog HDL syntax throughout the book to facilitate readers to refer the desired syntax as they need - Printing all keywords in boldface throughout the book to emphasize the language structures and improve the readability of Verilog HDL modules This book is the ideal textbook for the following courses: Digital System Design, FPGA System Designs and Practices, Advanced Digital Systems Design, and the like. In addition, it can be used as a self-studying or professional reference book in this field.