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

VLIW Microprocessor Hardware Design offers you a complete guide to VLIW hardware design―providing state-of-the-art coverage of microarchitectures, RTL coding, ASIC flow, and FPGA flow of design. The book also contains a wide range of skills-building examples, all worked using Verilog, that equip you with a practical, hands-on tutorial for understanding each step in the VLIW microprocessor design process.

FPGA Prototyping Using Verilog Examples will provide you with a hands-on introduction to Verilog synthesis and FPGA programming through a “learn by doing” approach. By following the clear, easy-to-understand templates for code development and the numerous practical examples, you can quickly develop and simulate a sophisticated digital circuit, realize it on a prototyping device, and verify the operation of its physical implementation.

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.

Demonstrates a top-down approach to digital VLSI design.

Provides a systematic overview of architecture optimization techniques.

Features a chapter on field-programmable logic devices, their technologies and architectures.

Includes checklists, hints, and warnings for various design situations.

Emphasizes design flows that do not overlook important action items and which include alternative options when planning the development of microelectronic circuits.

Presents a complete, field-tested methodology for FPGA design, focused on reuse across design teams

Offers best practices for FPGA timing closure, in-system debug, and board design

Details techniques to resolve common pitfalls in designing with FPGAs

This practical guide explores the development and deployment of FPGA-based digital systems using the two most popular hardware description languages, Verilog and VHDL. Written by a pair of digital circuit design experts, the book offers a solid grounding in FPGA principles, practices, and applications and provides an overview of more complex topics. Important concepts are demonstrated through real-world examples, ready-to-run code, and inexpensive start-to-finish projects for both the Basys and Arty boards

What if you could use software to design hardware? Not just any hardware–imagine specifying the behavior of a complex parallel computer, sending it to a chip, and having it run on that chip–all without any manufacturing? With Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), you can design such a machine with your mouse and keyboard.

Introduces the subjects in a very concise format, providing just enough information for the reader to develop their first digital systems in VHDL

Book content based on 20 years of experience teaching the subject in undergraduate and graduate courses

Provides a design kit

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become one of the key digital circuit implementation media over the last decade. A crucial part of their creation lies in their architecture, which governs the nature of their programmable logic functionality and their programmable interconnect. FPGA architecture has a dramatic effect on the quality of the final device's speed performance, area efficiency and power consumption. FPGA Architecture: Survey and Challenges reviews the historical development of programmable logic devices, the fundamental programming technologies that the programmability is built on, and then describes the basic understandings gleaned from research on architectures.

This book lies at the interface of machine learning – a subfield of computer science that develops algorithms for challenging tasks such as shape or image recognition, where traditional algorithms fail – and photonics – the physical science of light, which underlies many of the optical communications technologies used in our information society. It provides a thorough introduction to reservoir computing and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).