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).

Discusses features and drawbacks of reconfigurability methods for FPGAs, focused on aerospace applications. Explains how radiation from space causes soft errors in FPGAs and how to mitigate them. Enables readers to qualify the target application on FPGA under radiation and by fault injection

Introduction to and recent Research in Synthesis and Optimization of FPGA Based Systems

Easily understandable introductive sections followed by comprehensive topics covering novel techniques including numerous examples from practical applications

Presents a number of practical designs based on the proposed models and methods for complete applications from such areas as data processing, combinatorial search, and recursive computations

Fault-tolerance in integrated circuits is not an exclusive concern regarding space designers or highly-reliable application engineers. Rather, designers of next generation products must cope with reduced margin noises due to technological advances. The continuous evolution of the fabrication technology process of semiconductor components, in terms of transistor geometry shrinking, power supply, speed, and logic density, has significantly reduced the reliability of very deep submicron integrated circuits, in face of the various internal and external sources of noise.

Guides the reader to create good VHDL descriptions and to simulate VHDL designs

Explains VHDL through solving selected sample problems

Offers extensive exercises at the end of each chapter so that the reader is invited to learn VHDL by doing it and writing good code