With the advance of semiconductor and communication industry, the useof system-on-chip (SoC) has become an essential technique to reduce product costs. The development of a good understanding of the key stages of the hardware description language (HDL) design flow based on cell-based libraries or field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices becomes essential. This book addresses the needs for such a topic based on Verilog HDL and FPGAs. The most important features of this book includeHDL-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 include: - Explaining how to perform synthesis and verification to achieve optimized synthesis results and compiler times - Illustrating the entire design and verification flow using an FPGA case study - Emphasizing design/implementation trade-off options, with coverage of ASICs and FPGAs- Providing plentiful worked examples and review questions in each section for readers to test their understanding of the related topics- Giving readers deeper understanding with plentiful review questions in each section and end-of-chapter problems - Incorporating many case studies to help the reader grasp the essentials of practical digital systems to be designed using Verilog HDL and FPGAs- Highlighting Verilog HDL syntax throughout the book to facilitate readers to refer the desired syntax as they need- Printing all keywords in boldface throughout the book to emphasize the language structures and improve the readability of Verilog HDL modules This book is the ideal textbook for the following courses: Digital System Design, FPGA System Designs and Practices, Advanced Digital Systems Design, and the like. In addition, it can be used as a self-studying or professional reference book in this field.
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)