Digital Systems Design and Practice

With the advance of semiconductor and communication technologies, the use of systemon-a-chip (SoC) has become an essential technique to decrease product costs. To design and implement an SoC-based product, it proves necessary to totally or partly rely on the hardware description language (HDL) synthesis flow and field programmable gata array (FPGA) devices or cell libraries. As a consequence, it has become an important attainment for electrical engineers to develop a good understanding of the key issues of HDL design flows based on FPGA devices or cell libraries. To achieve this, this book addresses the need for teaching such a topic based on Verilog HDL and FPGAs.This book, Digital System Designs and Practices: Using Verilog HDL and FPGAs, aim to be used as a text for students and as a reference book for professionals or a self-study book for readers. For classroom use, each chapter includes many worked examples and review questions for helping readers test their understanding of the contents. In addition, throughout the book, an abundance of worked examples are provided for helping readers realize the basic features of Verilog HDL and grasp the essentials of digital system designs as well. The contents of this book largely stem from the course FPGA System Designs and Practices, offered at our campus over the past decade. This course is an undergraduate elective and the first-year graduate course. This book is so structured that it can be used as a sequence of courses, including Hardware Description Language, FPGA System Designs and Practices, Digital System Designs, Advanced Digital System Designs, and others.HDL-based design has become an essential technique for modern digital systems. This book focuses on developing, verifying, and synthesizing designs of practical digital systems using the most widely used hardware description Language: Verilog HDL and FPGAs. The main features of this book are: -- Explains how to perform synthesis and verification to achieve optimized synthesis results and compiler times-- Offers complete coverage of Verilog HDL syntax-- Illustrates the entire design and verification flow using an FPGA case study-- Presents many real-world worked design examples-- Gives readers deeper understanding with review questions in each section and end-of-chapter problems-- Emphasizes design/implementation tradeoff options, with coverage of ASICs and FPGAs
About the Author: Ming-Bo Lin is a Professor of Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Professor Lin received his B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the National Taiwan Institute of Technology, Taipei, his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been teaching the courses related to the field of Computer Engineering and Microelectronics for over twenty-five years. He was an adjunct Professor at National Taiwan University. His research interests include VLSI system designs, mixed-signal integrated circuit designs, parallel architectures and algorithms, and embedded computer systems. He has published numerous journal and conference papers in these areas. In addition, he has directed the designs of over fifty ASICs and has been consulted in industry extensively in the fields of ASIC, SoC, and embedded system designs. He is a senior member of IEEE. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007 from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He chaired the Workshop on Computer Architectures, Embedded Systems, and VLSI/EDA in National Computer Symposium (NCS) 2009. During the past twenty-five years, Professor Lin has translated two books and authored about thirty books (include revisions), especially including the following English textbooks 1. Ming-Bo Lin, Digital System Designs and Practices: Using Verilog HDL and FPGAs, John Wiley & Sons, 2008. (ISBN: 9780470823231) 2. Ming-Bo Lin, Introduction to VLSI Systems: A Logic, Circuit, and System Perspective, CRC Press, 2012. (ISBN: 9781439868591)