A Beginners Guide to VHDL

This edition provides students with a thorough grounding in the basic concepts and language of VHDL, and allows them to apply what they've learned using realistic examples. Concepts are followed by examples and tutorials. For schools wanting to introduce VHDL into their undergraduate computer engineering sequence courses, this supplement provides the basics. There are tutorial descriptions and programming mechanics unique to CAD tools and environments. These tutorials integrate details of the programming mechanics that are not typically covered in class, but are invaluable in laboratory exercises. It emphasizes examples, extensive use of timing diagrams, event lists and many tutorials for independent student study, as well as featuring an application-oriented perspective rather than a language oriented perspective. Each application and concept is illustrated with several examples and each chapter ends with summaries that include a list of "Dos" and "Don'ts". Viewgraph masters and the VHDL source for all text examples will supplement the text and appendices will provide details necessary for specific commercially available simulators.