Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays

Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays Dennis Silage This text describes modern embedded processing systems using the Field Programmable Gate Array. This new paradigm in embedded design utilizes the Verilog Hardware Description Language behavioral synthesis of controller and datapath constructs and the Finite State Machine for Digital Signal Processing, communications and control with the FPGA, external hard core peripherals, custom internal soft core peripherals and the soft core processor. Review materials and references for DSP place the embedded design projects in perspective. This text features the Xilinx Spartan-3E Starter Board, the Xilinx ISE WebPACK EDA, Xilinx LogiCORE blocks and the Xilinx PicoBlaze soft core processor. Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays is intended as a supplementary text and laboratory manual for undergraduate students in a contemporary course in digital logic and embedded systems. Professionals who have not had an exposure to the fine grained FPGA, the Verilog HDL, an EDA software tool or the new paradigm of the controller and datapath and the FSM will find that this text and the Xilinx Spartan-3E Starter Board provides the necessary experience in this emerging area of electrotechnology.

Customer Reviews:

The Most Practical Verilog Book

By Nicholas DiToro "Nick DiToro" - November 17, 2008

Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays is an extremely practical learn-by-doing book. If you are a hands-on embedded engineering practitioner (or want to be) this book is for you, especially if you need to use Verilog with FPGA Xilinx hardware. It is also useful as an educational lab manual, with which I would probably pair one of Michael Cilletti's Verilog books for the course material.

Chapter 1's C language to Verilog procedure is a tool that you can add directly to your toolbox. This C2Verilog procedure is the first of many thrusts into behavioral synthesis. Chapter 1 also has a decent introduction to Verilog, making this book a standalone volume for electrical engineers and computer scientists with a background in digital design and C language embedded systems.

Chapter 2 is an in-depth discussion of the Xilinx ISE, with an abundance of screen shots. There is really no other way to guide someone through such a tool, and the book's treatment is very... read more

Nice Book

By A Kid's Review - March 14, 2010

I buy this book because because i hahe the spartan3e starter board and this seems to be the best book with example code and the only source with templates i know where real time DSP with A/D and D/A is possible.

Great book for learning Xilinx Embedded PicoBlaze

By honorguard - February 5, 2012

This book is excellent to give detail operations of the Spartan 3E board, especially the control of ADC and DAC. The Digital filters examples are great too since they use the special design controller. The web support for all the files are there.