FAQ comp.lang.vhdl part 2

comp.lang.vhdl

Frequently Asked Questions And Answers: Part 2

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)
You can also use this form to drop me a short note if your client can handle FORMs.

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 & 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

"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 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
The Sense of VASG
Standard No. 1076-CONC-1990, Order Code SH13326, $22.50,
"This publication is the companion document to IEEE Std 1076-1987. It clarifies ambiguities and editorial errors in IEEE Std 1076-1987 and contains accepted requests for new language features"
"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
"A CD-ROM Learning Tool for VHDL"
The VHDL CD-ROM Tutorial provides an easy-to-use logical method of referencing the standard, while showing actual detailed examples of VHDL implementation. This product is available for use in Microsoft Windows. (3.1 and '95), Macintosh., Sun OS and Sun Solaris environments. See also http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/cd.html.

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 this books are out of print or a good book is missing. See also http://www.vhdluk.org/books/pubpage.htm for another list of publications on VHDL.
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.users.globalnet.co.uk/~arushton/
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/
Digital Design and Modeling with VHDL and Synthesis
K.C. Chang, Boeing
ISBN 0-8186-7716-3, IEEE Computer Society Press
January 1997, 368 pages. 7" x 10" Hardcover, The book combines VHDL and synthesis in an easy-to-follow step-by-step sequence. This approach addresses common mistakes and hard-to-understand concepts in a way that eases learning. Digital Design and Modeling with VHDL and Synthesis introduces VHDL with closely related practical design examples, simulation waveforms, and schematics so the reader can better understand their correspondence and relationship. See http://www.computer.org/cspress/catalog/bp07716.htm
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, 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.
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
A VHDL Synthesis Primer
J. Bhasker
ISBN: 0-9650391-0-2, Star Galaxy Publishing
February 1996, 250pp, Hardcover, $49.95, Publisher/Order info: Star Galaxy Publishing, 1058 Treeline Drive, Suite 247, Allentown, PA 18103, 610-391-7296 (Phone/fax: 24 hrs), http://members.aol.com/SGalaxyPub
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 Coding Styles and Methodologies,... an In-depth Tutorial
Ben Cohen
ISBN 0-7923-9598-0, Kluwer Academic Publishers
1995, 365 pp, $94, Disk included, Web page: http://members.aol.com/vhdlcohen/vhdl/
The Designer's Guide to VHDL
Peter J. Ashenden
ISBN 1-55860-270-4, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
1995, 710 pages, list price US$44.95, http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~petera/designers-guide/DG.html
VLSI Digital Signal Processors: An Introduction to Rapid Prototyping and Design Synthesis (using VHDL and other means)
Vijay K. Madisetti
ISBN 7506-9406-8, IEEE Order Number PC5599, IEEE Press
1995, 524 pp., $59, http://www.ee.gatech.edu/users/vijaykm/bl.html
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
VHDL
Doug Perry
ISBN 0-07-049434-7, MacGraw-Hill
1993, 390 pages, 2nd edition, ATTN: Charles Decker, Professional Publishing Group 11 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011, available
VHDL Programming with Advanced Topics
Louis Baker
John Wiley & Sons 1993, New York
VHDL Buyer's Guide
Steve Wolfe and Fouad Kiamilev
ISBN 0-934869-14-6, Cad Cam Publishing, Incorporated 11/1992, Trade Paper, 30p
Analysis and Design of Digital Systems with VHDL
A. Dewey
Addison-Wesley
1992
Applications of VHDL to Circuit Design
edited by Randolph Harr and Alec Stanculescu
ISBN 0-7923-9153-5, Kluwer Academic Publishers
1991, 256 pp, $75.00, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell,MA 02061
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 pp, $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
An Introduction to VHDL: Hardware Description and Design
Lipsett, Schaeffer, Ussery
ISBN 0-7923-9030-x, Kluwer Academic Publishers
1989, 320 pp, $59.95
ASIC System Design with VHDL: A Paradigm>
S. Leung, M.A. Shanblatt
ISBN 0-7923-9032-6, Kluwer Academic Publishers
1989, 240 pp, $56.50
Chip Level Modelling in VHDL
J. Armstrong
Prentice Hall
1988, pp. 148, 119,- german marks
The VHDL Cookbook
Peter J. Ashenden, University of Adelaide, South Australia
per ftp from ftp://ftp.cs.adelaide.edu.au/pub/VHDL-Cookbook/ (129.127.8.8) (Mac,PC,PS) or ftp://bears.ece.ucsb.edu/pub/VHDL/comp.lang.vhdl
Introduction to HDL-Based Design Using VHDL
Steve Carlson
Synopsys, Inc.
$49.95, 700 East Middlefield Road, Mountain View, CA 94043 (415)962-5000
Performance and Fault Modeling with VHDL
edited by Joel M. Schoen
ISBN 0-13-658816-6, Prentice Hall
$44.00, 406 pages clothbound
A VHDL Primer
J. Bhasker
ISBN 0-13-952987-X, Prentice Hall
revised edition (includes features from VHDL-93) ISBN 0-13-181447-8
phone 1-515-284-6751
VHDL Designer's Reference
Jean Michel Berge, Alain Fonkua, Serge Maginot, Jacques Roulliard
ISBN 0-7923-1756-4, Kluwer Academic Publishers
A Guide to VHDL
Stanley Mazor, Patricia Langstraat
ISBN 0-7923-9255-8, Kluwer Academic Publishers
VHDL for Simulation, Synthesis and Formal Proofs of Hardware
Jean Mermet
ISBN 0-7923-9253-1, Kluwer academic publishers
VHDL: Analysis and Modelling of Digital Systems
1/E, Zainalabedin Navabi
ISBN 0-07-046472-3, Mc Graw Hill
US$ 38.50
Digital System Design using VHDL
Chin-Hwa Lee, CorralTek
P.O. 2616, Salinas, CA 93902 (408) 484-1726
Price $29 (answer book $10)
VHDL '92; The New Features of the VHDL Hardware Description Language
Berge, Fonkoua, Maginot and Rouillard
ISBN:0-7923-9356-2, Kluwer Academic Publishers
Price: $87.50 Dfl180.00
A VHDL Primer, Revised Edition
J. Bhasker
ISBN 0-13-181447-8, Prentice Hall
(this edition is based on VHDL-93)
A Designer's Guide to VHDL Synthesis
Ott
ISBN 0-7923-9472-0, Kluwer Academic Publishers
A Guide to VHDL Syntax
J. Bhasker
ISBN 0-13-324351-6, Prentice Hall
$45.00, Number of pages: 268
Formal Semantics for VHDL
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Peter T. Breuer (eds.)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
more info on: http://www.dit.upm.es/~cdk/inv/euroform/sem-vhdl.html
VHDL Techniques, Experiments, and Caveats
J. Pick
ISBN 0-07-049906-3, McGraw-Hill
$55
VHDL Modeling for Digital Design Synthesis
Yu-Chin Hsu
ISBN 0-7923-9597-2, Kluwer Academic Publishers
376p
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), $229.00 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 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

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,-
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

Transation 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 90-802634-2-7
1996, 246 pp, Dfl 70,- (excl. VAT and Handling), Order via: Transfer EDS, Institutenweg 16, 7521 PK, Enschede, the Netherlands

2.5. Books in Swedish

VHDL för konstruktion
Lennart Lindh, Stefan Sjöholm
ISBN 91-44-47782-1
1996, 524 pp, Studentlitteratur

2.6. Some Publisher Addresses

3. Report Section

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 modelling 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 Modelling Guidelines", ref. ASIC/001 Issue 1 The ESA VHDL Modelling 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 Modelling 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."

Other free documents:
The VHDL Cookbook
see booklist entry
Part 3: Products & Services for VHDL includes a Public Domain and a Commercial Section
Authors:
Tom Dettmer, Edwin Naroska