Vahid Release Date: 23 Aug 2006 Format: Hardback Pages: 552 ISBN: 9780470044377 ISBN-10: 0470044373
The book's key features include:
An emphasis on register-transfer-level (RTL) design, the level at which most digital design is practiced today, giving readers a modern perspective of the field's applicability. Yet, coverage stays bottom-up and concrete, starting from basic transistors and gates, and moving step-by-step up to more complex components.
Extensive use of basic examples to teach and illustrate new concepts, and of application examples, such as pacemakers, ultrasound machines, automobiles, and cell phones, to demonstrate the immediate relevance of the concepts.
Separation of basic design from optimization, allowing development of a solid understanding of basic design, before considering the more advanced topic of optimization.
Flexible organization, enabling early or late coverage of optimization methods or of HDLs, and enabling choice of VHDL, Verilog, or SystemC HDLs.
