comp.lang.vhdl Frequently Asked Questions And Answers (Part 2): Books on VHDL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Remarks This is a monthly posting to comp.lang.vhdl containing information on VHDL books. Please send additional information directly to the editor: edwin@ds.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Edwin Naroska) Corrections and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks for all corrections. At the end of this listing, you'll also find reports on global topics concerning VHDL, which are available per ftp. There are three other regular postings: part 1 lists general information on VHDL, part 3 lists products and services (PD+commercial), part 4 contains descriptions for a number of terms and phrases used to define VHDL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents * 1 Documents of the IEEE o 1.1 Where to Obtain? * 2 Books on VHDL o 2.1 Books in French o 2.2 Books in German o 2.3 Books in Japanese o 2.4 Books in Dutch o 2.5 Books in Swedish o 2.6 Books in Italian Language o 2.7 Books in Spanish o 2.8 Recommended Books in comp.lang.vhdl o 2.9 Some Publisher Addresses * 3 Free Documents o 3.1 Reports o 3.2 Free Books ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Documents of the IEEE See also http://standards.ieee.org. IEEE Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual IEEE Std 1076-2002, IEEE Standards, 2002, IEEE Product No. SH94983-TBR, $126, IEEE Member Discount, Softcover, 306pp, ISBN 0-7381-3247-0 IEEE Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual IEEE Std 1076-2000, IEEE Standards, 2000, IEEE Product No. SH94817-TBR, $126, IEEE Member Discount, Softcover, 270pp, ISBN 0-7381-1948-2 1076.1-1999 IEEE Standard VHDL Analog and Mixed-Signal Extensions 1999 IEEE Std 1076.1-1999, IEEE Standards, 1999, IEEE Product No. SH94731-TBR, $125, IEEE Member Discount, Softcover, 320pp, ISBN 0-7381-1640-8 1076.6-1999 IEEE Standard for VHDL Register Transfer Level (RTL) Synthesis 1999 IEEE Std 1076.6-199, IEEE Standards, 1999, IEEE Product No. SH94792-TBR, $84, IEEE Member Discount, Softcover, 80pp, ISBN 0-7381-1819-2 IEEE Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual IEEE Std 1076-1993, IEEE Standards, Order Code SH 16840, $56, 30% IEEE Member Discount, bulk discounts, ISBN 1-55937-376-8, 1994 1076-1987 Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual IEEE Standards, Not available from the IEEE anymore. Now available from Menchini & Associates (see FAQ part 3 products & services), for a cost of $75 US. Please contact mench@mench.com for further information. IEEE Standards Interpretations: IEEE Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual IEEE Std 1076/INT-1991, Order Code SH148941991 IEEE Standard Multivalue Logic System for VHDL Model Interoperability (std_logic_1164) IEEE Std 1164-1993, ...1993 1.1 Where to Obtain? U.S.A.: IEEE Service Center 445 Hoes Lane P.O. Box 1331 Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 USA Phone: 1-800-678-IEEE, FAX: 908-981-9667 Canada: This office is no longer in operation. Europe: IEEE Computer Society, 13, Avenue de l'Aquilon, B-1200 Brussels BELGIUM Telephone: 32.2.770.21.98 FAX: 32.2.770.85.05 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Books on VHDL Please send a note to the editor if any of these books are out of print or a good book is missing. Using PSL/SUGAR with Verilog and VHDL Guide to Property Specification Language for Assertion-Based Verification Ben Cohen ISBN 0-9705394-4-4, Ben Cohen VhdlCohen Publishing This book focuses on the practical use of assertions and use ABV with PSL in a simulation environment. "Any designer wanting to ramp up on ABV in general and PSL in particular should read this book" Rahul Razdan, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. "Book not only explains the details of the PSL Foundation Language, it also walks through PSL applications within an assertion-based methodology. This is a wonderful book that will help the reader come up to speed on the emerging PSL standard", Harry Foster Accellera PSL Formal Verification Technical Committee chair. For book information/purchase see http://www.vhdlcohen.com/ Writing Testbenches: Functional Verification of HDL Models, Second Edition Janick Bergeron ISBN 1-4020-7401-8, Kluwer Academic Publishers January 2003, 512 pages. Writing Testbenches: Functional Verification of HDL Model is the first book ever devoted entirely to the topic of verification and testbenches. It covers all the issues of a verification process that aims for first-time success. http://janick.bergeron.com/wtb The System Designer's Guide to VHDL-AMS Peter J. Ashenden, Gregory D. Peterson, Darrell A. Teegarden ISBN 1558607498, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers September 2002, 880 pages. The book addresses Analog, Mixed-Signal, and Mixed-Technology Modeling. See also http://www.mkp.com/vhdl-ams. Educational software coordinated with the book can be found at http://www.mentor.com/systemvision/program.html. Real Chip Design and Verification Using Verilog and VHDL Ben Cohen ISBN 0-9705394-2-8, VhdlCohen Publishing November 2001, 420 pages. This book addresses the practical and real aspects of logic design, processes, and verification. It incorporates a collection of FPGA and ASIC design practices expressed with Verilog and VHDL. For book information/purchase see http://www.vhdlcohen.com/. The Designer's Guide to VHDL, 2nd Edition Peter J. Ashenden ISBN 1558606912, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers May 2001, 740 pages Component Design by Example ... a Step-by-Step Process Using VHDL with UART as Vehicle Ben Cohen ISBN 0-9705394-0-1, VhdlCohen Publishing November 2000, 308 pages. Book uses a full featured UART with FIFO as a design vehicle to demonstrate the front-end design processes including: Requirement Specification, Architectural Plan, Verification Plan, Design and Synthesis, Design Verification, Design Integration, Documentation & Delivery, and Process Guidelines. Book provides helpful guides and templates for all front-end phases of a design, most of which are independent of the HDL implementation or verification languages. CD Includes Advanced Design of Parameterized UART with Subblocks, FIFO Buffering, and Interrupt Controller, Reusable TextIO Parser Package, Advanced Testbench Code with Client/Server Object Oriented Style and Text Command Files, Design of Verifier with Error Detection and Transaction Logging, EMACS Editor with T-shell for Windows NT, 9X, Standard VHDL Packages. For book information/purchase see http://www.vhdlcohen.com The VHDL Reference: A Practical Guide to Computer-Aided Integrated Circuit Design including VHDL-AMS Ulrich Heinkel, Martin Padeffke, Werner Haas, Thomas Buerner, Herbert Braisz, Thomas Gentner, Alexander Grassmann ISBN: 0-471-89972-0, John Wiley & Sons April 2000, 440 pages, The essential guide for students and professionals working in computer hardware design and synthesis. The authors describe the basic concepts of VHDL and VHDL-AMS and their application in both behavioral and synthesizable modeling of digital systems, with 2 CD-ROMs, http://www.vhdl-online.de Digital System Design with VHDL Mark Zwolinski ISBN 0-201-36063-2, Prentice Hall 2000. 1st Edition, 336 pages Digital Systems Design With Vhdl and Synthesis : An Integrated Approach K. C. Chang ISBN 0769500234, IEEE Computer Society Press May 1999, Hardcover - 516 pages VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies, 2nd Edition Ben Cohen ISBN 0-7923-8474-1, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999, 450 pages. Book emphasizes detailed application of the language, style, methodologies, and synthesis through several complete examples. This edition provides practical information on reusable software methodologies for the design of bus functional models for testbenches. This includes the waveform, client/server, command text and binary file methods. All VHDL code is on CD. CD also includes the GNU toolsuite with EMACS language sensitive editor, TSHELL, 30 day evaluation of ModelSim (Model Technology), and 20 day evaluation of Synplify (Synplicity). For TOC see http://members.aol.com/vhdlcohen/vhdl Formal Semantics and Proof Techniques for Optimizing VHDL Models Kothanda Umamageswaran, Sheetanshu L. Pandey, et al. ISBN 0792383753, Kluwer Academic Publishers November 1998, 184 pages A VHDL Primer, Third Edition J. Bhasker ISBN 0-13-096575-8, Prentice Hall September 1998, 375 pages, updated to cover the popular new IEEE STD_LOGIC_1164 standard, http://www.phptr.com A VHDL Synthesis Primer, Second Edition J. Bhasker ISBN 0-9650391-9-6, Star Galaxy Publishing August 1998, 312 pages, Hardcover, $59.95, Describes the NUMERIC_BIT and NUMERIC_STD packages and uses these packages in the examples, Publisher/Order info: Star Galaxy Publishing, 1058 Treeline Drive, Suite 277, Allentown, PA 18103, Phone/fax: 888-727-7296 (toll free in US), 610-391-7296 [24 hours], http://users.aol.com/SGalaxyPub VHDL 3rd Edition Douglas Perry ISBN 0070494363, MacGraw-Hill June 1998, 500 pages, 3nd edition Essential VHDL : RTL Synthesis Done Right Sundar Rajan ISBN 0966959000, S & G Publishing June 1998, 320 pages, US$49.95, Essential VHDL provides a simple, hands-on approach to writing VHDL for RTL synthesis. It follows a systematic, "how-to" style and instructs readers on practical VHDL design. Although targeted primarily at programmable logic designers, the techniques presented in this book make it equally useful for those interested in real-world HDL design. The Student's Guide to VHDL Peter J. Ashenden ISBN 1-55860-520-7, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers January 1998, 340 pages, $29.95 Digital Systems Design Using VHDL Charles H. Roth, Jr ISBN 0-534-98099-X, PWS Publishing Company 1998, 470 pages, http://www.brookscole.com/engineering_d/ VHDL for Logic Synthesis, 2nd Edition Andrew Rushton ISBN 0-471-98325-X, John Wiley & Sons May 1998, 390 pages, Hardback, Web page: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ajr1/ VHDL Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, 2nd Edition Ben Cohen ISBN 0-7923-8115-7, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998, Web page: http://members.aol.com/vhdlcohen/vhdl/ HDL Chip Design - A Practical Guide for Designing, Synthesizing and simulating ASICs and FPGAs using VHDL or Verilog Douglas J. Smith ISBN 0-9651934-3-8, Doone Publications, extern_mref(asmith@doone.com) 1997, Foreword by Alex Zamfirescu, IEEE Project Chair/IEC TC Convenor. This book won the 1997 small press award for Science and Engineering. Shows equivalent VHDL and Verilog models side-by-side followed by a common synthesized circuit implementation. Large format (8.5x11 inches) - case bound - 470 pages - 240 illustrations - 180 practical modeling examples, http://www.doone.com. Analysis and Design of Digital Systems with VHDL A. Dewey ISBN: 0534954103, PWS Publishing Company August 1996, 682 pages Quick-Turnaround ASIC Design in VHDL : Core-Based Behavioral Synthesis M. S. Ben Romdhane, V. K. Madisetti, J. W. Hines, (Foreword by Prof. J. Allen, MIT) ISBN 0-7923-9744-4, Kluwer Academic Publishers June 1996, $95, http://www.ee.gatech.edu/users/215/book3.html Vhdl for Programmable Logic Kevin Skahill, Jay Legenhausen, Ron Wade, Corey Wilner, BL Wilson ISBN 0201895730, Addison-Wesley May 1996, 593 pages, book & CD-Rom edition includes Cypress WARP software and examples, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201895730/002-9583653-7021215 VHDL Made Easy David Pellerin and Douglas Taylor ISBN 0-13-650763-8, Prentice Hall 1996, 420 pages, $54.95. Includes CD-ROM containing a VHDL simulator, VHDL examples and other software. Available direct from Accolade Design Automation (800-470-2686), 26331 NE Valley Street, Suite 5-120, Duvall, WA 98019, FAX 206-788-3768, http://www.acc-eda.com/ VHDL for Designers Stefan Sjoholm and Lennart Lindh 1996, ISBN 0-13-473414-9, Prentice Hall Covers everything from basics of VHDL through test benches, synthesis, test methodology even to behavioral synthesis Introduction to VHDL D Hunter, T Johnson Paperback:0-412-73130-4, Chapman & Hall November 1995, 246x189mm, 496 pages, 8 line illus, UK o24.99 VHDL Modeling for Digital Design Synthesis Yu-Chin Hsu ISBN 0-7923-9597-2, Kluwer Academic Publishers June 1995, 356 pages Formal Semantics for VHDL Carlos Delgado Kloos, Peter T. Breuer (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers April 1995, more info on: http://www.dit.upm.es/~cdk/inv/euroform/sem-vhdl.html Guide to VHDL Syntax: Based On The New Ieee Std 1076-1993 (Innovative Technology) J. Bhasker ISBN 0-13-324351-6, Prentice Hall January 1995, $45, Number of pages: 268 A Designer's Guide to VHDL Synthesis Douglas E. Ott, Thomas J. Wilderotter ISBN 0-7923-9472-0, Kluwer Academic Publishers December 1994 Circuit Synthesis with VHDL R Airiau, JM Berge, V Olive ISBN 0-7923-9429-1, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994 Digital Design & Synthesis with VHDL Ross ISBN 0-9627488-3-8, Automata Publishing Company 1994, 300p, Cloth Text Structured Logic Design With VHDL J.R. Armstrong and F. Gail Gray ISBN 0-13-855206-1, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., USA May of 1993 A Guide to VHDL, Second Edition Stanley Mazor, Patricia Langstraat ISBN 0792393872, Kluwer Academic Publishers August 1993 VHDL Techniques, Experiments, and Caveats J. Pick ISBN 0-07-049906-3, McGraw-Hill June 1993, $55 VHDL '92; The New Features of the VHDL Hardware Description Language Berge, Fonkoua, Maginot and Rouillard ISBN:0-7923-9356-2, Kluwer Academic Publishers May 1993, Price: $87.50 Dfl180 Digital System Design using VHDL Chin-Hwa Lee, CorralTek P.O. 2616, Salinas, CA 93902 (408) 484-1726 April 1993, Price $29 (answer book $10) VHDL Buyer's Guide Steve Wolfe and Fouad Kiamilev ISBN 0-934869-14-6, Cad Cam Publishing, Incorporated September 1992, Trade Paper, 30p VHDL: Analysis and Modeling of Digital Systems Zainalabedin Navabi ISBN 0-07-046472-3, Mc Graw Hill September 1992, US$ 38.50 VHDL Designer's Reference Jean Michel Berge, Alain Fonkua, Serge Maginot, Jacques Roulliard ISBN 0-7923-1756-4, Kluwer Academic Publishers July 1992 VHDL for Simulation, Synthesis and Formal Proofs of Hardware Jean Mermet ISBN 0-7923-9253-1, Kluwer academic publishers June 1992 Hardware Design and Simulation in VAL/VHDL Larry M. Augustin, David C. Luckham, Benoit A. Gennart, Yo Huh and Alec G. Stanculescu ISBN 0-7923-9087-3, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991, 352 pages, $69.95 The VHDL Handbook David Coelho (Vantage Analysis Systems) ISBN 0-7923-90310-8, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989, examples and std package on (PC) disc for $100 handling cost from: Coelho Publications, 43000 Christy Street, Fremont, CA 94538 voice: (415) 770-0875, fax: (415) 770-0728, email: ...!uunet!coelho!drc VHDL : Hardware Description and Design Lipsett, Schaeffer, Ussery ISBN 0-7923-9030-x, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989, 320 pages, $59.95 ASIC System Design with VHDL: A Paradigm S. Leung, M.A. Shanblatt ISBN 0-7923-9032-6, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989, 240 pages, $56.50 The VHDL Cookbook Peter J. Ashenden, University of Adelaide, South Australia per ftp from ftp://ftp.cs.adelaide.edu.au/pub/VHDL-Cookbook/, http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl/vhdl.html or http://www3.cti.ac.at/ecsi/EARNEST/digests/VHDL_cookbook/default.htm VHDL: Features and Applications, A self-study course J. Bhasker IEEE Contains: Self study course + final exam + A VHDL Primer(Revised Edition) text + IEEE Std 1076-1993 + IEEE Std 1164-1993 (all in one package), $229 IEEE members, $299 non-members, IEEE Product number: HL5712, To order: Call IEEE at (800) 678-IEEE 2.1 Books in French VHDL, du langage au circuit , du circuit au langage J. Weber and M.Meaudre ISBN 2-225-82957-8, edition Masson 1997, http://www.masson.fr/ Initiation au langage VHDL Michel Amiaux ISBN 2-225-85232-4, edition Masson 1996, http://www.masson.fr/ Circuits numériques et synthèse logique, un outil : VHDL Jacques Weber, Maurice Meaudre ISBN 2-225-84956-0, Collection : Technologie de l'Université à l'Industrie 1995, 208 pages VHDL du langage a la modelisation R. Airiau, J.M. Berge, V. Olive and J. Rouillard Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes Lausanne 1990 2.2 Books in German VHDL-Synthese, Entwurf digitaler Schaltungen und Systeme J.Reichardt, B.Schwarz ISBN 3-486-25128-7, Oldenbourg-Verlag http://www.oldenbourg.de/verlag/index_suche.htm 2000, 288 Seiten, http://users.etech.fh-hamburg.de/users/reichardt/buch.html Entwicklung digitaler Systeme mit VHDL - Einsatz und Anwendung von VHDL zur Simulation und zur Synthese von digitalen Systemen Jürgen Bäsig ISBN 3-00-005081-7, Eigenverlag 2000, http://wwwsoft.nf.fh-nuernberg.de/labs/me/me/vhdl.html#mevk_05 Abstrakte Modellierung digitaler Schaltungen (VHDL vom funktionalen Modell bis zur Gatterebene) K. ten Hagen ISBN 3-540-59143-5, Springer August 1995 Schaltungsdesign mit VHDL Gunther Lehmann, Bernhard Wunder, Manfred Selz ISBN 3-7723-6163-3, Franzis-Verlag 1994, 317 Seiten, mit Diskette, Poing, DM 89,-. Das Buch ist zur Zeit vergriffen, aber eine pdf-Version kann unter http://www-itiv.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de/FORSCHUNG/VEROEFFENTLICHUNGEN/lws94/lws94.html kostenlos heruntergeladen werden VLSI-Entwurf (Vorgehen, Methoden, Automatisierung) Thomas Kropf ISBN 3-8266-0163-7, International Thomson Publishing TAT (Thomson Aktuelle Tutorien) Nr.17, (trotz des Titels ist das Buch zu ca. 80% ein VHDL-Buch) Die VHDL-Syntax (Deutsche Uebersetzung von "A Guide to VHDL Syntax") J. Bhasker ISBN: 3-8272-9528-9, Prentice Hall Verlag GmbH 2.3 Books in Japanese Translation of: A VHDL Primer Jayaram Bhasker ISBN4-7898-3286-4 C3055 P3200E, CQ Publishing 2.4 Books in Dutch VHDL, VHDL'87/'93 en voorbeelden Egbert Molenkamp ISBN 90-802634-3-5 1997, 250 pages, Dfl 70,- (excl. VAT and Handling), Order via: Transfer EDS, Goorseweg 5, 7475 BB Markelo, the Netherlands, fax. x-31-547-367366. The book is out of print but can be downloaded for free from http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~molenkam/DownloadVhdlBoek.htm. 2.5 Books in Swedish VHDL för konstruktion Lennart Lindh, Stefan Sjöholm ISBN 91-44-47782-1 1996, 524 pages, Studentlitteratur 2.6 Books in Italian Language Testo sulle Logiche Programmabili Catello Antonio De Rosa Actually, the focus of the book is Programmable Logic. However, it contains a chapter on VHDL for Programmable Logic. See also http://digilander.libero.it/fpga/appoggio/libro.html. 2.7 Books in Spanish Diseno de Sistemas Digitales con VHDL Serafin A. Perez, Enrique Soto, Santiago Fernandez ISBN 84-9732-081-6 2002. http://www.dte.uvigo.es/vhdl/home.html 2.8 Recommended Books in comp.lang.vhdl I compiled two lists from articles which were posted to comp.lang.vhdl from 1996/1/1 to 2003/8/15. Only books which were recommended at least by 4 different posters (excluding the author) appear on the lists. I've done my best to get exact numbers but probably catched not all postings which included any recommendations. Hence, if you think that a book is missing or got a wrong number of recommendations (see below) please send me a note. How to get your favourite book onto the list(s)? If you are the author: there is no way (besides writing an excellent book). Otherwise, if you think it's an excellent book please share the information with the community: just post a recommendation to the newsgroup. If their number exceeds the threshold the book will be added to the appropriate list. To initialise this process I plan to post a 'request for recommendations' every 12 month. The next request is scheduled for November 2003. Please note that the books may focus on different topics of VHDL and not all books are recommended for beginners. Hence, try to get some more informations on a book before ordering. Usually, the various on-line book stores provide some additional info (see i.e. http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.bookpool.com/,...). Of course you may also check out Section 2. Further, please post/send remarks about the books on the list (for beginners, not for beginners,...) The lists are sorted by decreasing number of recommendations (the actual number for each book is enclosed in '()'). General books on VHDL: * "The Designer's Guide to VHDL" by Peter Ashenden (40) remarks: for beginners, comprehensive, very good for reference * "A VHDL Primer" by J. Bhasker (14) remark: for beginners, not suited to learn synthesis * "VHDL" by Doug Perry (12) * "VHDL made Easy!" by David Pellerin (9) remark: for beginners * "VHDL for Designers" by Stefan Sjoholm and Lennart Lindh (7) Books on VHDL for synthesis: * "Hdl Chip Design" by Douglas J. Smith (23) remark: for beginners, has VHDL and Verilog examples * "VHDL for Logic Synthesis" by Andrew Rushton (18) * "VHDL for programmable logic" by Keven Skahill (16) remark: for beginners * "VHDL Coding styles and methodologies,... an In-depth Tutorial" by Ben Cohen (16) remark: not for beginners * "A VHDL synthesis primer" by J. Bhasker (5) * "Real Chip Design and Verification using Verilog and VHDL" by Ben Cohen (5) * "Analysis And Modeling of Digital Systems" (second edition) by Z.Navabi (4) remarks: not for beginners, covers testbench and synthesis * "Essential VHDL - RTL Synthesis Done Right" by Sundar Rajan (4) * "Digital System Design with VHDL" by Mark Zwolinski (4) 2.9 Some Publisher Addresses * Prentice Hall www: http://www.prenhall.com/ Order addresses o U.S.: To order by phone, call 1-(800) 643-5506. Please give the operator the following "key code": E1001-A1(3) o UK, Europe, Middle East, and Africa: Fax your order to 44-1-442-882277, or send e-mail to ibd_orders@prenhall.co.uk. * Kluwer Academic Publishers www: http://www.wkap.com/ Contact addresses o North and South America: Kluwer Academic Publishers Customer Service Department, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358, U.S.A., Tel : (617) 871-6600, Fax : (617) 871-6528, E-mail: kluwer@wkap.com o Rest of the World: Kluwer Academic Publishers Customer Service Department, P.O. Box 989, 3300 AZ Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Tel : (+31) 78 639 23 92, Fax : (+31) 78 639 22 54, E-mail: services@wkap.nl * McGraw-Hill www: http://www.books.mcgraw-hill.com/ Contact addresses o U.S.: McGraw-Hill, 11 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 U.S.A. o United Kingdom and Europe: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Europe, Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 2QL, England, Telephone +44 (0)1628 502500 Fax +44 (0)1628 770224 * Morgan Kaufmann Publishers www: http://www.mkp.com/ Contact address: o The Sales/Editorial office: 340 Pine Street 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104 Phone: 415-392-2665, Fax: 415-982-2665 Order: o USA: + Mail order: Customer Service and Orders Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Attn: Order Fulfillment Dept., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887 Phone: 800-745-7323, Fax: 800-874-6418 + Phone order: Please call 800-745-7323 from the US or Canada, or 407-345-3800 from any other location. o Europe & the UK: Afterhurst Mail Order Service, 27 Church Road Hove, East Sussex, BN3 2FA, United Kingdom Phone: 44-1-273-748427, Fax: 44-1-273-722180, Email: mkp.europe@psypress.co.uk * John Wiley & Sons www: http://www.wiley.com/ Order o United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean: U.S. Customer Service Department at John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Distribution Center, 1 Wiley Drive, Somerset, NJ 08875-1272, Phone: (908) 469-4400 or (800) 225-5945, Fax: (908) 302-2300, Email: bstahoski@wiley.com, Hours: 8:30 a.m to 5:30 p.m. EST * Springer-Verlag, Germany www: http://www.springer.de/ Contact address: Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberger Platz 3, D-14197 Berlin, Germany, Phone: 49-30-82787-0, Email: service@springer.de * Doone Publications www: http://www.doone.com/ Contact addresses o America, Europe: Anne Smith, Doone Publications, 7950, Highway 72W #G106, Madison, Al, 35758, USA, Phone: Outside USA +1 205 837 0580, Within USA 1 800 311 3753, Fax: +1 205 837 0580, Email: asmith@doone.com o Asia, Australasia: Coral Cooksley, Kirstep Distribution, Australia, Phone: +61 (02) 489 7855, Fax: +61 (02) 489 7034, Email: cc@aaoepp.aao.gov.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Free Documents Quick reference cards for VHDL and STD_LOGIC_1164-based packages are available from the Qualis web site at http://www.qualis.com/cgi-bin/qualis/libObject.pl?object=tr010. See also the Amontec VHDL Memo which is available online from http://www.amontec.com/fix/vhdl_memo/index.html. A PSL VHDL Quick reference card is available from http://members.aol.com/vhdlcohen/vhdl/vhdlcode/PSL_quickrefvhdl.pdf. 3.1. Reports Only stuff available by ftp, http or similar will be mentioned here, if of general interest. On ftp://ftp.estec.esa.nl/pub/vhdl/doc (or via http://www.estec.esa.nl/wsmwww/vhdl/vhdlpage.html) the following documents can be found (look in their README for the most actual info): BoardLevel.ps "VHDL Models for Board-level Simulation", ref. WSM/SH/010 This document provides recommendations for development and usage of VHDL models intended for Board-level simulation. The purpose of these recommendations is to define modeling criteria that will produce models that are highly accurate in both functionality and timing, and that will provide sufficient simulation performance to facilitate long simulation runs. Format: postscript. CompList.ps "Support Component List", ref. WDN/PS/822 Issue 2 This document contains summary information for European components for space applications. Their main characteristics are listed, including radiation tolerance. Coordinates to contact persons for further information are also included. Format: postscript. ModelGuide.ps "VHDL Modeling Guidelines", ref. ASIC/001 Issue 1 The ESA VHDL Modeling Guidelines have been established to ensure a good coding standard for VHDL, w.r.t. to readability, portability and extensive verification. There are separate sections dealing with specific requirements for models for component simulation, board-level simulation, system-level simulation and test benches. The document is being used for education at several universities, as a base for company specific guidelines etc. Format: postscript. UseOfVHDL.ps "The Usage of VHDL in the European Space Agency" An overview of the current and envisaged (April 1995) usage of VHDL within ESA. Describes the background, scope and purpose of the ESA VHDL Modeling Guidelines, and introduces the upcoming document "VHDL Models for Board-level Simulation". Outlines a planned scheme for making VHDL models for Board-level simulation available including schemes for protecting the design information. The paper was presented at the Workshop on Libraries, Component Modeling and Quality Assurance in Nantes (F), April 1995. Format: postscript. VHDLReport.ps "The VHDL Standard" (by E2S n.v.) An overview of the May 1994 status of the VHDL standard and associated activities within the IEEE, EIA, and ESPRIT projects. An extensive summary of VHDL repositories is included, together with a list of European VHDL tools. Format: postscript. At ftp://ftp.edif.org/pub/vhdl/models the following documents are available: VHDL93-model.ps Internal Report, 30-03-95, ``An Information Model of VHDL'93 (Draft Version 02)'' University of Manchester, Department of Computer Scienc. Format: postscript. VHDL87-model.ps Internal Report, 10-11-94, ``An Information Model of VHDL'87 (Draft Version 10)'' University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science. Format: postscript. Content of the README file: "The present documents are the result of work supported by the UK Defence Research Agency and ESIP (ESPRIT Project 8370). The goal has been to produce comprehensive information models of VHDL'87 and VHDL '93. The models defined here describe the essential objects and the semantics of VHDL'87 and VHDL'93 at the description, analysis, elaboration and simulation levels of design. They are not implementation information models for a VHDL simulator nor for a VHDL checker; they can, however, provide the basis for the creation of such implementation oriented information models. The VHDL'87 model is accompanied by a the presentation from file VHDL87-model-presentation.ps. This document supersedes the earlier reports ECIP2/UM/015-1 01-05-93 and UM Internal Report 10-10-94." The Actel HDL Coding Style Guide provides instructions for optimizing HDL code for the Actel architecture using examples in both VHDL and Verilog. While this document primarily targets coding for the Actel architecture it also contains a section about technology independent coding styles. The style guide is available from http://www.actel.com/docs/R2-2001/hdlcode.pdf. The Synthesis and Simulation Design Guide from Xilinx provides a general overview of designing FPGAs with HDLs. It includes design hints for the novice HDL user, as well as for the experienced user who is designing FPGAs for the first time. Written for the Xilinx M1 development tools. The manual is available from http://www.xilinx.com/apps/fpga.htm. VHDL and Verilog fundamentals--expressions, operands, and operators by Douglas J Smith deals with differences between VHDL and Verilog expressions. Knowing the operand differences between the two HDLs helps writing more efficient chip-design code and is also useful when converting between VHDL and Verilog. The article is available from http://archives.e-insite.net/archives/ednmag/reg/1997/041097/08df_08.htm. An Introduction to HDLs for Simulation and Synthesis (by David Pellerin) shows through simple examples how HDLs can be used to describe circuits for simulation and synthesis. The presentation is not intended as a comprehensive HDL tutorial, but does provide information to get started using HDLs, and helps you to understand how to get the most out if simulation and synthesis tools. The document is available from http://www.acc-eda.com/support/vhdpaper.pdf. 3.2 Free Books The VHDL Cookbook Peter J. Ashenden An introduction to VHDL. Available per ftp from ftp://ftp.cs.adelaide.edu.au/pub/VHDL-Cookbook/, http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl/vhdl.html or http://www3.cti.ac.at/ecsi/EARNEST/digests/VHDL_cookbook/default.htm. see also booklist entry VHDL Kurzanleitung Andreas Mäder A German introduction to VHDL. Available from http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl/vhdl.html. VHDL-Kurzanleitung Richard Geissler Another introduction to VHDL in German language. The document is available from http://mikro.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/vhdl/anl-deut.vhd/html/vhdl-all.html. Schaltungsdesign mit VHDL Gunther Lehmann, Bernhard Wunder, Manfred Selz ISBN 3-7723-6163-3, Franzis-Verlag A German introduction to circuit design with VHDL, a pdf version is available from http://www-itiv.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de/opencms/opencms/de/study/lectures/vhdl_download.html Schaltungs-Synthese mit VHDL, eine Einführung Karl Friedrich Penning An introduction to VHDL for synthesis. The document is available from http://wwwlrh.fh-bielefeld.de/vhdl_vor/VHDL_V_A.htm. VHDL-Manual Richard Geissler and Slavek Bulach Another introduction to VHDL. Available from http://mikro.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/vhdl/anl-engl.vhd/vhdl-all-e.ps.gz. VHDL, VHDL'87/'93 en voorbeelden Egbert Molenkamp ISBN 90-802634-3-5 1997, 250 pages, Dutch language, The book can be downloaded for free from http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~molenkam/DownloadVhdlBoek.htm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors: Tom Dettmer, Edwin Naroska