This book is a collection of short articles on various aspects of FPGA design: synthesis, simulation, porting ASIC designs, floorplanning and timing closure, design methodologies, performance, area and power optimizations, RTL coding, IP core selection, and many others.

Sequential Logic and Verilog HDL Fundamentals discusses the analysis and synthesis of synchronous and asynchronous sequential machines. These machines are implemented using Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL), in accordance with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard: 1364-1995.

• Presents unique ideas to interpret digital logic in the Verilog RTL form
• Consists of practical scenarios and issues that are helpful to students and professionals
• Covers key case studies in generic forms and more than 100 practical examples

The Verilog language provides a means to model a digital system at many levels of abstraction from a logic gate to a complex digital system to a mainframe computer. The purpose of this book is to present the Verilog language together with a wide variety of examples, so that the reader can gain a firm foundation in the design of the digital system using Verilog HDL.

This book covers basic fundamentals of logic design and advanced RTL design concepts using VHDL. The book is organized to describe both simple and complex RTL design scenarios using VHDL. It gives practical information on the issues in ASIC prototyping using FPGAs, design challenges and how to overcome practical issues and concerns

Written the way the material is taught, enabling a bottom-up approach to learning which culminates with a high-level of learning, with a solid foundation. Emphasizes examples from which students can learn: contains a solved example for nearly every section in the book. Includes more than 1000 exercise problems, as well as concept check questions for each section, tied directly to specific learning outcomes

Guides readers through the design of hardware architectures for digital communication and image processing applications. Offers numerous applicative examples, making the text easily understandable. Includes the description of all VHDL-related notions

This fun guide shows how to get started with FPGA technology using the popular Mojo, Papilio One, and Elbert 2 boards. Written by electronics guru Simon Monk, Programming FPGAs: Getting Started with Verilog features clear explanations, easy-to-follow examples, and downloadable sample programs.

This book presents an evaluation methodology to design future FPGA fabrics incorporating hard embedded blocks (HEBs) to accelerate applications. This methodology will be useful for selection of blocks to be embedded into the fabric and for evaluating the performance gain that can be achieved by such an embedding.

This book offers readers a clear guide to implementing engineering applications with FPGAs, from the mathematical description to the hardware synthesis, including discussion of VHDL programming and co-simulation issues. Coverage includes FPGA realizations such as: chaos generators that are described from their mathematical models; artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict chaotic time series, for which a discussion of different ANN topologies is included, with different learning techniques and activation functions; random number generators (RNGs) that are realized using different chaos generators, and discussions of their maximum Lyapunov exponent values and entropies. Finally, optimized chaotic oscillators are synchronized and realized to implement a secure communication system that processes black and white and grey-scale images. In each application, readers will find VHDL programming guidelines and computer arithmetic issues, along with co-simulation examples with Active-HDL and Simulink.

Introduces FPGA technology to software developers by giving an overview of FPGA programming models and design tools, as well as various application examples. Provides a holistic analysis of the topic and enables developers to tackle the architectural needs for Big Data processing with FPGAs. Explains the reasons for the energy efficiency and performance benefits of FPGA processing. Provides a user-oriented approach and a sense for where and how to apply FPGA technology