Books for Learning FPGA Design

[farooqrizvi]

thtz.great can i i get the pdf version for free?

[OutputLogic]

I've just published a book called "100 Power Tips for FPGA Designers". More information is available on the book website

Thanks,

Evgeni

[barrunto321]

Dear! u saved me time at the book shop! thanks a lot!

[CurtisStephenson]

For anyone interested, there is a new edition of the "Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems" called "Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems - SOPC edition". It has all the same chapters as the Jeri's original book has, with the addition of some labs for the newer Altera dev boards (DE1,DE2).

[digitaljetset]

@Demultiplexer

These books teaches basic logic design structures, once you know them well you can use them to develop more complex blocks. You can practice by implementing existing ICs and testing if they work as expected, according to the datasheet.

[fmreee]

thanx for video .. thanx a lots

[MikeRosky1]

You are sexy!

[saint2091]

One of the hottest electrical engineers I have ever seen...

[TomekTQ]

I'm a CS student and I think I'd enjoy building my own processor, just to learn more about the electronic side of computation. The hilarious thing is that I'm absolutely horrendous with mathematics (what the hell am I doing studying computer science?), which has always put me off from tinkering more with electronics. I guess FPGAs are a good kind of middle ground between hand-wiring my own CPU like some folks and toying around with Arduino boards.

[jeriellsworth]

@TomekTQ Don't let the math thing discourage you. I think school puts too much emphasis on memorizing equations and boring stuff. In most cases you'll have a book to reference in the real world.

[opl500]

@TomekTQ

VHDL or verilog isn't that hard to learn. Everything is concurrent, you have to actually do work to serialize anything. The other thing is that you'll be working with finite state machines a lot. And that you have to be aware of the timing impact of statements within the FSM. With software you have the luxury of ignoring timing to a degree you don't have with hardware.

[frankbuss]

I've started with the book "Designing with FPGAs & CPLDs". But I think the best way to learn using FPGAs is to try your own projects, discuss on the comp.arch.fpga newsgroup (too bad that Peter Alfke doesn't post as often as when he was still working for Xilinx) and reading good examples. For programmers VHDL is like other functional languages, e.g. Haskell. Of course, you must take care about the hardware, like that statemachines can run into illegal states if you don't latch async. inputs.

[chukchee]

She's hot! Teach us mortals how to do electronics. Please....

[DavyBoySmith]

VHDL Very Highly Difficult Language, just kiddin it's easy peasy.

Blue book was unavailable for a while.

Avnet is a great source for DevKits

[nullt0ne]

Can you recommend any good, cheap FPGA development boards?

[jeriellsworth]

@nullt0ne I'm not sure what the state of the art is for FPGA devboards these days. I haven't purchased one in years. You can usually pick up decent ones for $100 at Altera, Xilinx, Lattice.

[digitaljetset]

I learned VHDL from the same books in the same order she shows them hehe. There are other good books like VHDL made easy and the IEEE std 1076 itself.

[btraynor]

For reference, the 3 books are:

"Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems"

"Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL"

"HDL Chip Design"

[nawkwan]

You're one hot electrical engineer.

[barrunto321]

@nawkwan you mean electronic engineer!... she is HoT

[belstifrew153]

@nawkwan 

[sylware]

damn... this vidéo is not html5! (even with h264!)

[thewii552]

where should i go to GET an fpga and programming/evaluating board?

[sanches2]

@thewii552

try xilinx or alterawebsites. Also check online for some seminars organised by the companies that represent them you can ged $200 worth kit for free at such events... i bought mine :( until i was given one more for free later on ... this sucks a?

[Maronatis]

Just ordered the first book, and put the other two on my wishlist. Thanks Jeri. I always wondered where to start, now I know. :-)

[hmpeter]

The 'blue book' looks great.

But the cheapest one over here is 134€, wich might be ~182US$. Not exactly student-friendly. :-)

The first one is quite cheap, i´ll give it a try.

Thank you!

[v2keener]

Schematics... This series really makes me want to create some hardware coolness. Thanks Jeri.

[cc6809]

Great books for those so inclined on the subjects :-)

[kinglonewolf104]

Thanks for the book suggestions. I'll definately be looking out for the "blue book".

&eB