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

Takes into account the peculiarities of a Finite State Machine model used for interpretation of a control algorithm, as well as features of hardware in use. Discusses the hardware implementation of control algorithms represented by graph-schemes of algorithm. Includes new methods of logic synthesis and optimization for logic circuits of Mealy and Moore FSMs targeting FPGAs, as well as a lot of examples

This textbook is intended to serve as a practical guide for the design of complex digital logic circuits such as digital control circuits, network interface circuits, pipelined arithmetic units, and RISC microprocessors. It is an advanced digital logic design textbook that emphasizes the use of synthesizable VHDL code and provides numerous fully worked-out practical design examples including a Universal Serial Bus interface, a pipelined multiply-accumulate unit, and a pipelined microprocessor for the ARM THUMB architecture.

A comprehensive coverage of the basic capability of VHDL

Emphasizes examples from which students can learn: contains a solved example for nearly every section in the book

Includes more than 400 exercise problems, as well as concept check questions for each section, tied directly to specific learning outcomes

This book addresses an often-neglected aspect of the creation of VHDL designs. A VHDL description is also source code, and VHDL designers can use the best practices of software development to write high-quality code and to organize it in a design. This book presents this unique set of skills, teaching VHDL designers of all experience levels how to apply the best design principles and coding practices from the software world to the world of hardware. The concepts introduced here will help readers write code that is easier to understand and more likely to be correct, with improved readability, maintainability, and overall quality.