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Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for undergraduate digital logic and computer design courses. The more advanced topics and exercises also make this text useful for upper level courses in digital logic or programmable logic. Design engineers working in industry will want to consider this text for a rapid introduction to FPLD technology and logic synthesis using commercial CAD tools.
Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems includes two tutorials on the Altera CAD tool environment, an overview of programmable logic, and a design library with several easy-to-use input and output functions. These features were developed to help students get started quickly. Early design examples use schematic capture and library components. VHDL is used for more complex designs after a short introduction to VHDL-based synthesis.
If you are using the newer Quartus II development tools (instead of
Max Plus II), or the UP3 or DE2 boards, you will want the Quartus
II edition (Third Edition). If you plan on using the newest board the
DE1, you will want the newest DE2/DE1 edition which should be available
by Fall 2007 (Fourth Edition).
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The approach used in this text reflects contemporary practice in industry more accurately than the more traditional TTL protoboard-based laboratory courses. Designs containing up to seventy thousand gates are possible with the Altera Student Version CAD tools and the UP 2 board. A CD-ROM with the Altera Student edition including schematic capture, VHDL, Verilog and logic simulation is packaged with the book. Design examples from the book are on the CD-ROM.
Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems contains a number of interesting
and challenging laboratory projects involving serial communications, state
machines with video output, video games and graphics, simple computers,
keyboard and mouse interfaces, robotics, and a RISC processor core. These
projects were all developed on the student version of the Altera CAD tools
and can be implemented on the Altera UP 1 or UP 2 boards. A special discount
is available from Kluwer when the text is selected for course adoption
and six or more copies are ordered by a university bookstore.
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at hamblen@ece.gatech.edu
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