
FPGAs: Instant Access
Clive Maxfield(Author)
Newnes (Publisher)
Published on 4. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-7506-8974-8 (ISBN)
Description
FPGAs are central to electronic design! The engineers designing these devices are in need of essential information at a moment's notice. The Instant Access Series provides all the critical content that a computer design engineer needs in his or her daily work. This book provides an introduction to FPGAs as well as succinct overviews of fundamental concepts and basic programming. FPGAs are a customizable chip flexible enough to be deployed in a wide range of products and applications. There are several basic design flows detailed including ones based in C/C++, DSP, and HDL. This book is filled with images, figures, tables, and easy to find tips and tricks for the engineer that needs material fast to complete projects to deadline.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Circuit Designers, Applications Engineers, Software and Hardware Engineers; Computer Engineers
Illustrations
Approx. 120 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-8974-8 (9780750689748)
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Person
Clive "Max" Maxfield received a BS in Control Engineering from Sheffield Polytechnic, England in 1980. He began his career as a mainframe CPU designer for International Computers Limited (ICL) in Manchester, England. Max now finds himself a member of the technical staff (MTS) at Intergraph Electronics, Huntsville, Alabama. Max is the author of dozens of articles and papers appearing in magazines and at technical conferences around the world. Max's main area of interest are currently focused in the analog, digital, and mixed-signal simulation of integrated circuits and multichip modules.
Author
Engineer, TechBytes, and Editor of PLDesignline.com
EDA industry consultant, EDN columnist, and Embedded Systems Guru
EDA industry consultant, EDN columnist, and Embedded Systems Guru
Content
Table of Contents1 The Fundamentals2 FPGA Architectures3 Programming (Configuring) an FPGA4 FPGA vs. ASIC Designs5 "Traditional? Design Flows6 Other Design Flows7 Using Design Tools8 Choosing the Right Device