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I am selecting a VHDL book. There are many out there.

Since I am going to be designing for Xilinx, does this impact my choice of
instructional VHDL books ?


Sincerely
Daniel DeConinck
High Res Technologies, Inc.

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Dan,

> I am selecting a VHDL book. There are many out there.
>
> Since I am going to be designing for Xilinx, does this impact my choice of
> instructional VHDL books ?

I suggest first maybe have a look at the free Xilinx Synthesis
Technology (XST) User Guide 3.1i:
http://support.xilinx.com/support/sw_manuals/3_1i/download/
It's very instructional on how to write your VHDL to take best
advantage of the FPGA's resources.

My personal preference is to write VHDL code
modules / cores / macros in a generic, vendor independent
style as much as possible, and then write "wrappers" if
I need to instantiate vendor or architecture
specific components like GCLKs or DLLs.
This makes the VHDL as reusable and portable
as possible.

There are alot of great VHDL books out there, as you
have found.  One that I've found useful is
"Essential VHDL, RTL Synthesis Done Right"
by Sundar Rajan.  This one gets my vote :-)

>
>
> Sincerely
> Daniel DeConinck
> High Res Technologies, Inc.
>

Best regards

Tony Burch

www.BurchED.com.au
Lowest cost, easiest-to-use
FPGA prototyping kits!