Real World FPGA Design with Verilog
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Author: Ken Coffman
List Price: $89.00
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ISBN: 0130998516
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (15 November, 1999)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 147,995
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
It scratched my itch....
This book fit nicely in the gap I noticed between books on digital design with Verilog that were written from a structured academic standpoint and product specific user manuals and application notes. To learn effective FPGA design from books one would desire to have this book along with the other two; lacking "Real World FPGA Design" one would have to ask colleagues lots of questions and learn the rest the hard way.I am using this book as I 'retool' as a FPGA Digital Design Engineer since full-custom design jobs here are drying up since few companies can afford the investment of time and money to bring custom devices to market. I wish there was a book like this for the classic chip design world that I could wave at the newbie system and digital designers that wanted me to add an 8 input NOR gate to the library that could drive a fanout of 50 loads 10 mm away. Verilog is a many-faceted gem; I have been using it since the early 90's, albeit at the switch and structural level. This book is useful to me as I learn to design in Verilog at greater level of abstraction and it differs from other texts I have found in that it does not lose sight of the lower-level 'gotchas'. The only thing that keeps me from giving this book my highest rating is that there are some errors that do need correcting; the URL listed in another review here remedies that problem.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good writing style
I'm an analog design engineer with over 20 years of experience in industry. I want to add FPGA's to my bag of tricks, and I ran across Mr. Coffman's book via a search with Google. My book arrived a week ago and I am finding it to be just the kind of book I have been looking for. He has a good writing style, very easy to follow. I plan to invest many hours working through his examples with the included software. I have read other reviews of this book at this Amazon site. Some people are looking for an academic book on Verilog. Others are looking for a book that will teach them Verilog without spending the time programming and simulating (ie learning without doing homework). If you fall into either of these groups, this book is not for you. However, if you are an experienced engineer looking to learn about Verilog and VHDL through honest study and experimenting, then Mr. Coffman's book is an excellent choice to guide you through this process with a focus on the "real world". You also may find yourself chuckling at some of his commentary on the way
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent jump-start book for engineers!
Anyone who understands C/pascal is going to love Ken's book. It's the perfect reference to sit next to your keyboard for a quick hands-on reference! Ken taught me in 1 minute how to create an array of cells in an FPGA simply via the TOC! In another minute I was implementing static-keys into a ROM'd lookup table. It could not have been easier. *Anyone trying to implement algorithms in Verilog should by this book*
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