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The Designer's Guide to VHDL
15 Oct 1995-
TL;DR: The Designer's Guide to VHDL is both a comprehensive manual for the language and an authoritative reference on its use in hardware design at all levels, from the system level to the gate level.
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The Designer's Guide to VHDL is both a comprehensive manual for the language and an authoritative reference on its use in hardware design at all levels, from the system level to the gate level. Using the IEEE standard for VHDL, the author presents the entire description language and builds a modeling methodology based on successful software engineering techniques. Requiring only a minimal background in programming, this is an excellent tutorial for anyone in computer architecture, digital systems engineering, or CAD. The book is organized so that it can be either read cover-to-cover for a comprehensive tutorial or kept deskside as a reference to the language. Each chapter introduces a number of related concepts or language facilities and illustrates each one with examples. Scattered throughout the book are four case studies, which bring together preceding material in the form of extended worked examples. All of the examples and case studies, complete with test drivers for running the VHDL code, are available via the World Wide Web. In addition, each chapter is followed by a set of related exercises.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify patterns in the decision, analysis, design, and implementation phases of DSL development and discuss domain analysis tools and language development systems that may help to speed up DSL development.
Abstract: Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are languages tailored to a specific application domain. They offer substantial gains in expressiveness and ease of use compared with general-purpose programming languages in their domain of application. DSL development is hard, requiring both domain knowledge and language development expertise. Few people have both. Not surprisingly, the decision to develop a DSL is often postponed indefinitely, if considered at all, and most DSLs never get beyond the application library stage.Although many articles have been written on the development of particular DSLs, there is very limited literature on DSL development methodologies and many questions remain regarding when and how to develop a DSL. To aid the DSL developer, we identify patterns in the decision, analysis, design, and implementation phases of DSL development. Our patterns improve and extend earlier work on DSL design patterns. We also discuss domain analysis tools and language development systems that may help to speed up DSL development. Finally, we present a number of open problems.
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TL;DR: This paper reviews the state of the art of field- programmable gate array (FPGA) design methodologies with a focus on industrial control system applications and presents three main design rules, algorithm refinement, modularity, and systematic search for the best compromise between the control performance and the architectural constraints.
Abstract: This paper reviews the state of the art of field- programmable gate array (FPGA) design methodologies with a focus on industrial control system applications. This paper starts with an overview of FPGA technology development, followed by a presentation of design methodologies, development tools and relevant CAD environments, including the use of portable hardware description languages and system level programming/design tools. They enable a holistic functional approach with the major advantage of setting up a unique modeling and evaluation environment for complete industrial electronics systems. Three main design rules are then presented. These are algorithm refinement, modularity, and systematic search for the best compromise between the control performance and the architectural constraints. An overview of contributions and limits of FPGAs is also given, followed by a short survey of FPGA-based intelligent controllers for modern industrial systems. Finally, two complete and timely case studies are presented to illustrate the benefits of an FPGA implementation when using the proposed system modeling and design methodology. These consist of the direct torque control for induction motor drives and the control of a diesel-driven synchronous stand-alone generator with the help of fuzzy logic.
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...These tools are mostly based on HDLs such as very high-speed integrated circuits (Vhsic) HDL (VHDL) [2], [49] or Verilog [50]....
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TL;DR: An on-chip integrated wavelength demultiplexer designed using an inverse computational algorithm is experimentally demonstrated in this paper, where 1,300 and 1,550 nm wavelength light is sorted in a device area of just 2.8 µm2.
Abstract: An on-chip integrated wavelength demultiplexer designed using an inverse computational algorithm is experimentally demonstrated. 1,300 and 1,550 nm wavelength light is sorted in a device area of just 2.8 × 2.8 μm2.
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...Electronic hardware description languages, such as Verilog and VHDL, are widely used in industry to design digital and analog circuits [6, 7]....
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02 Nov 2007
TL;DR: This book is intended as an introduction to the entire range of issues important to reconfigurable computing, using FPGAs as the context, or "computing vehicles" to implement this powerful technology.
Abstract: The main characteristic of Reconfigurable Computing is the presence of hardware that can be reconfigured to implement specific functionality more suitable for specially tailored hardware than on a simple uniprocessor. Reconfigurable computing systems join microprocessors and programmable hardware in order to take advantage of the combined strengths of hardware and software and have been used in applications ranging from embedded systems to high performance computing. Many of the fundamental theories have been identified and used by the Hardware/Software Co-Design research field. Although the same background ideas are shared in both areas, they have different goals and use different approaches.This book is intended as an introduction to the entire range of issues important to reconfigurable computing, using FPGAs as the context, or "computing vehicles" to implement this powerful technology. It will take a reader with a background in the basics of digital design and software programming and provide them with the knowledge needed to be an effective designer or researcher in this rapidly evolving field.
· Treatment of FPGAs as computing vehicles rather than glue-logic or ASIC substitutes
· Views of FPGA programming beyond Verilog/VHDL
· Broad set of case studies demonstrating how to use FPGAs in novel and efficient ways
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31 Dec 2004
TL;DR: A new age of embedded computing design is described, in which the processor is central, making the approach radically distinct from contemporary practices of embedded systems design, and why it is essential to take a computing-centric and system-design approach to the traditional elements of nonprogrammable components, peripherals, interconnects and buses.
Abstract: The fact that there are more embedded computers than general-purpose computers and that we are impacted by hundreds of them every day is no longer news. What is news is that their increasing performance requirements, complexity and capabilities demand a new approach to their design.
Fisher, Faraboschi, and Young describe a new age of embedded computing design, in which the processor is central, making the approach radically distinct from contemporary practices of embedded systems design. They demonstrate why it is essential to take a computing-centric and system-design approach to the traditional elements of nonprogrammable components, peripherals, interconnects and buses. These elements must be unified in a system design with high-performance processor architectures, microarchitectures and compilers, and with the compilation tools, debuggers and simulators needed for application development.
In this landmark text, the authors apply their expertise in highly interdisciplinary hardware/software development and VLIW processors to illustrate this change in embedded computing. VLIW architectures have long been a popular choice in embedded systems design, and while VLIW is a running theme throughout the book, embedded computing is the core topic. Embedded Computing examines both in a book filled with fact and opinion based on the authors many years of R&D experience.
? Complemented by a unique, professional-quality embedded tool-chain on the authors' website, http://www.vliw.org/book
? Combines technical depth with real-world experience
? Comprehensively explains the differences between general purpose computing systems and embedded systems at the hardware, software, tools and operating system levels.
? Uses concrete examples to explain and motivate the trade-offs.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Embedded Processing
Chapter 2: An Overview of VLIW and ILP
Chapter 3: An Overview of ISA Design
Chapter 4: Architectural Structures in ISA design
Chapter 5: Microarchitecture Design
Chapter 6: System Design and Simulation
Chapter 7: Embedded Compiling and Toolchains
Chapter 8: Compiling for VLIWs and ILP
Chapter 9: The Run-time System
Chapter 10: Application Design and Customization
Chapter 11: Application Areas
Appendix A: The VEX System
Appendix B: Glossary
Appendix C: Bibliography
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