Books for Learning FPGA Design

Here are a few books that would be a starting point for someone interested in FPGA / CPLD / ASIC design.

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Education

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• electronics
• test equipment
• scope
• DMM
• multimeters

[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.

[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.

[nawkwan]

You're one hot electrical engineer.

[btraynor]

For reference, the 3 books are:

"Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems"

"Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL"

"HDL Chip Design"

[farooqrizvi]

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

[belstifrew153]

@nawkwan

[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.

[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!

[barrunto321]

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

[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!