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From: petera@chook.adelaide.edu.au (Peter Ashenden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.vhdl
Subject: VHDL books
Keywords: VHDL, books, teaching
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Date: 15 Jan 91 01:39:35 GMT
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Last year I used VHDL as the modeling language for a student project in an
undergraduate computer architecture course.  The students had to choose a
microprocessor chip and write and test a model of it.  I had read the books
referred to in previous articles in this newsgroup, but didn't find them
suitable for students in that course.  Hence I put together a booklet for them
to learn VHDL from.  It assumes that the reader basically knows how to
program (as most final year CS students do :-) ), and so gives a fairly quick
but thorough run through the sequential aspects of the language.  The
hardware modeling, concurrency and discrete event simulation algorithms
are covered in a bit more detail.  About 40% of the booklet is an extended
example, modeling a pretend RISC processor at both abstract and RTL levels.

The booklet doesn't cover all of VHDL, but does cover all the features
I found useful for architecture level modeling (about 95%).  If I get the time,
I plan to revise it this year for a repeat of the course.

If there is sufficient interest, I can make copies available
for personal or teaching use.

Reference:	Peter J. Ashenden
		The VHDL Cookbook (First Edition, July 1990)
		Dept Computer Science,
		University of Adelaide, South Australia
		approx 120 pp.

Peter A.