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Title: Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs by Bob Zeidman, Robert Zeidman ISBN: 1-57820-112-8 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very well written. Exactly what I was looking for.
Comment: I am an experienced embedded software engineer and part time digital design engineer. I was looking for a CPLD/FPGA book to help me with my first CPLD design. This was for a circuit that delivered highly accurate aircraft altitude to an autopilot system (very important stuff). I needed the following from a CPLD/FPGA book:
- An overview of CPLD/FPGA technology.
- How CPLDs and FPGAs have changed the way we must perform digital design (from the old days).
- Practical rules for creating proper synchronous design.
As the author (Bob Zeidman) points out, different sections of the book are intended for different audiences. For me, chapters 1 (history), 2 (CPLDS), and 5 (Design Techniques, Rules, and Guidelines) were the most important. I do not yet use FPGAs nor HDLs (though VHDL is in my near future). I never expect any book to answer all my questions; however, this one clearly answered the important questions I needed answered.
I used Altera's "MAX+PLUS II" tools to create, simulate (test) and program my circuit. Great tools, never crashed, excellent online help system and tutorials.
This book was critical in helping me design a reliable, testable, accurate circuit using synchronous design techniques. The circuit flies today in many business commuter aircraft.
By the way, there are some minor errors in the book (do you know of any books without errors?). I emailed Bob about it (the book gives you his URL and email address). Bob not only sent me errata information in like 2 hours, but provided an additional in depth explanation for an issue I was having with state machine design. Bob is also posting the errata info on his website - not THAT is customer service!
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent, Informative Book
Comment: Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs is an excellent introductory book, espcially for people just learning about programmable logic. It covers a wide range of topics in an interesting and informative manner. Also, the sidebars, of which there are many, have lots of great real-world experiential information. Every time I got to a page with a sidebar I'd immediately jump to it to see what was there. Often I'd come away with the thought, "So that's why they do it that way!". It's wonderful to see treatments of the kinds of bugs you'll encounter, good design practices that can be used to avoid these bugs, and most importantly the topic of designing for test. The latte, designing for testability, is so critical - especially as FPGAs explode in complexity.
My only suggestion for future editions is give pointers to "where to go next". Having whet my appetite for programmable logic, the next thing I want to do is apply it! Fortunately there are a number of FPGA starter kits from all the major suppliers - but a chapter that reviews these or points the reader to them would be a welcome addition.
Rating: 1
Summary: Very Simple: 12 years too late
Comment: Although well written, readable, and accurate in the information presented, the book is 12 years out of date. The preface implies that the book will help the reader choose the "right" FPGA or CPLD, but only deals with the most generic criteria.
A better title would be "Introduction to FPGAs and CPLDs for Managers".
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Title: VHDL Starter's Guide by Sudhakar Yalamanchili ISBN: 013519802X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 05 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $44.00 |
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Title: Field-Programmable Gate Arrays : Reconfigurable Logic for Rapid Prototyping and Implementation of Digital Systems by John V. Oldfield, Richard C. Dorf ISBN: 0471556653 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $105.00 |
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Title: Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (With CD-ROM) by Uwe Meyer-Baese ISBN: 3540413413 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 15 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
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Title: Real World FPGA Design with Verilog by Ken Coffman ISBN: 0130998516 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $89.00 |
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Title: Embedded Systems Design: An Introduction to Processes, Tools and Techniques by Arnold S. Berger ISBN: 1578200733 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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