Summary

A comprehensive resource on Verilog HDL for beginners and experts

Large and complicated digital circuits can be incorporated into hardware by using Verilog, a hardware description language (HDL). A designer aspiring to master this versatile language must first become familiar with its constructs, practice their use in real applications, and apply them in combinations in order to be successful. Design Through Verilog HDL affords novices the opportunity to perform all of these tasks, while also offering seasoned professionals a comprehensive resource on this dynamic tool.

Describing a design using Verilog is only half the story: writing test-benches, testing a design for all its desired functions, and how identifying and removing the faults remain significant challenges. Design Through Verilog HDL addresses each of these issues concisely and effectively. The authors discuss constructs through illustrative examples that are tested with popular simulation packages, ensuring the subject matter remains practically relevant.

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Each chapter concludes with exercises that both ensure readers have mastered the present material and stimulate readers to explore avenues of their own choosing. Written and assembled in a paced, logical manner, Design Through Verilog HDL provides professionals, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates with a one-of-a-kind resource.

Choice Review

Padmanabhan and Sundari (both, Amrita Institute of Technology, India) offer a book ideally suited for teaching digital hardware design techniques using a low-level programming language. They clearly demonstrate how Verilog HDL (hardware description language) allows one to create electronic circuit designs at various levels of abstraction (architectural, behavioral, gate and switch) and the subsequent stages in the design process of very large scale integration (VLSI) integrated circuit layouts. Topics include the syntax and semantics of Verilog HDL, gate and switch level logic simulation, system functionality modeling, and programmable logic devices. These topics are thoroughly and robustly presented with the help of a multitude of examples and diagrams. The authors consistently display the rare ability to simplify complex design topics, making the book a delight for those with minimal programming and digital logic experience, although a quick refresher in digital logic and a few pages devoted to the primitives of Boolean algebra would be appropriate. Nonetheless, it accurately describes the digital hardware design process. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. M. Connell SUNY College at Cortland