Fpga Based Systems Design And Practice

Everything FPGA designers need to know about FPGAs and VLSI Digital designs once built in custom silicon are increasingly implemented in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Effective FPGA system design requires a strong understanding of VLSI issues and constraints, and an understanding of the latest FPGA-specific techniques. In this book, Princeton University's Wayne Wolf covers everything FPGA designers need to know about all these topics: both the "how" and the "why." Wolf begins by introducing the essentials of VLSI: fabrication, circuits, interconnects, combinational and sequential logic design, system architectures, and more. Next, he demonstrates how to reflect this VLSI knowledge in a state-of-the-art design methodology that leverages FPGA's most valuable characteristics while mitigating its limitations. Coverage includes: How VLSI characteristics affect FPGAs and FPGA-based logic design How classical logic design techniques relate to FPGA-based logic design Understanding FPGA fabrics: the basic programmable structures of FPGAs Specifying and optimizing logic to address size, speed, and power consumption Verilog, VHDL, and software tools for optimizing logic and designs The structure of large digital systems, including register-transfer design methodology Building large-scale platform and multi-FPGA systems A start-to-finish DSP case study addressing a wide range of design problems PRENTICE HALL Professional Technical Reference Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 www.phptr.com ISBN: 0-13-142461-0

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.

Embedded Systems Design with Platform FPGAs introduces professional engineers and students alike to system development using Platform FPGAs. The focus is on embedded systems but it also serves as a general guide to building custom computing systems. The text describes the fundamental technology in terms of hardware, software, and a set of principles to guide the development of Platform FPGA systems. The goal is to show how to systematically and creatively apply these principles to the construction of application-specific embedded system architectures. There is a strong focus on using free and open source software to increase productivity. Each chapter is organized into two parts. The white pages describe concepts, principles, and general knowledge. The gray pages provide a technical rendition of the main issues of the chapter and show the concepts applied in practice. This includes step-by-step details for a specific development board and tool chain so that the reader can carry out the same steps on their own. Rather than try to demonstrate the concepts on a broad set of tools and boards, the text uses a single set of tools (Xilinx Platform Studio, Linux, and GNU) throughout and uses a single developer board (Xilinx ML-510) for the examples. Explains how to use the Platform FPGA to meet complex design requirements and improve product performance Presents both fundamental concepts together with pragmatic, step-by-step instructions for building a system on a Platform FPGA Includes detailed case studies, extended real-world examples, and lab exercises

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.

• • Learn the 'whys and hows' of digital system design with FPGAs from this thorough treatment. • Up-to-date information and comparison of different modern FPGA devices. • IEEE Fellow Wayne Wolf brings all related aspects of VLSI to FPGA system design in this thorough introduction.

The contents of this book are designed on the basis of the problem- based-learning (PBL) approach and follow the paradigm: design -> entry (in both schematic and HDL) -> verification as well as implementation. Based on this paradigm, we develop an incremental learn-by-doing method to help the student to build a sound understanding in both the design principles and the implementa-tions of digital systems based on FPGA devices. Features of this book include - Lab projects are exercised with schematic entry first and then Verilog HDL entry. - Both functional and timing verification are performed in each entry method to ensure the resulting design can work properly in FPGA devices. - The incremental learn-by-doing method is applied to gradually introduce new concepts and hardware resources and increase the depth of lab projects. - The paradigm, design -> entry (in both schematic and HDL) -> verification as well as implementation, is employed to familiarize the reader with the right concept and use of the HDL entry method. - Optional lab projects are provided for readers to make realistic tests on FPGA devices. - Extended lab projects to broaden the reader's background knowledge and ca-pability. This book can be used as the textbook for the following courses: Digital Logic Design Practice, Introduction to FPGA-Based System Design, Introduction to Digital System Practice, and Introduction to Verilog HDL.

Reconfigurable Computing marks a revolutionary and hot topic that bridges the gap between the separate worlds of hardware and software design— the key feature of reconfigurable computing is its groundbreaking ability to perform computations in hardware to increase performance while retaining the flexibility of a software solution. Reconfigurable computers serve as affordable, fast, and accurate tools for developing designs ranging from single chip architectures to multi-chip and embedded systems. Scott Hauck and Andre DeHon have assembled a group of the key experts in the fields of both hardware and software computing to provide an introduction to the entire range of issues relating to reconfigurable computing. FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) act as the “computing vehicles to implement this powerful technology. Readers will be guided into adopting a completely new way of handling existing design concerns and be able to make use of the vast opportunities possible with reconfigurable logic in this rapidly evolving field. Designed for both hardware and software programmers Views of reconfigurable programming beyond standard programming languages Broad set of case studies demonstrating how to use FPGAs in novel and efficient ways

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.