The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs

Description:

...a must-read book for those designers who either want an introduction to designing with FPGAs or need to broaden their understanding of the EDA tools available for such applications. Maxfield writes in a easy-to-read style, and provides insightful and diverse information for designers and curious readers alike. The author has never forgotten his designer roots, and the book is full of examples and chapters dedicated to such applications as gigabit transceivers, linear-feedback-shift registers, and integration of third-party cores. -- EDN, 5/21/2004

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices that provide a fast, low-cost way for embedded system designers to customize products and deliver new versions with upgraded features, because they can handle very complicated functions, and be reconfigured an infinite number of times. FPGAs have recently become much faster and more powerful, making them suitable for use with a wide range of embedded products. This has created a rapidly expanding market in the embedded world as products migrate to these flexible parts, and a need for designers to educate themselves quickly about working with FPGAs - which they can do with this book.

Clive "Max" Maxfield is a bestselling author and engineer with a large following in the electronic design automation (EDA)and embedded systems industry. In this comprehensive book, he covers all the issues of interest to designers working with, or contemplating a move to, FPGAs in their product designs. While other books cover fragments of FPGA technology or applications this is the first to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use for embedded systems.

 

Introductio; Fundamental Concepts; The Origin of FPGAs; Alternative FPGA Architectures; Programming (Configuring) an FPGA; Who Are All the Players?; FPGA Versus ASIC; HDL-Based Design Flows; Silicon Virtual Prototyping; C/C++ etc.–Based Design Flows;
DSP-Based Design Flows; Embedded Processor-Based; Modular and Incremental Design; High-Speed Design and Other PCB Considerations; Observing Internal Nodes in an FPGA; Intellectual Property; Migrating ASIC Designs to FPGAs and Vice Versa; Simulation, Synthesis, Verification, etc.; Choosing the Right Device; Gigabit Transceivers; Reconfigurable Computing; Creating an Open-Source-Based
Design Flow; Future FPGA Developments; Appendix A:
Signal Integrity 101;Capacitive and inductive coupling(crosstalk), Chip-level effects, Board-level effects, The evolution of delay specifications; Appendix B: Deep-Submicron Delay Effects 101, A potpourri of definitions, Alternative interconnect models, DSM delay effects
Summary, The Ouroboras, Many-to-one implementations; Appendix C: Linear Feedback Shift Registers 101, More taps than you know what to do with, Seeding an LFSR, FIFO applications, Modifying LFSRs to sequence 2n values, Accessing the previous value, Encryption and decryption applications,
Cyclic redundancy check applications.
Data compression applications
Built-in self-test applications
Pseudorandom-number-generation applications
Last but not least
Glossary
About the Author
Index

描述：
這本書是設計師必讀的書籍，無論是想要了解如何使用FPGAs進行設計，還是需要擴展對於這類應用中可用的EDA工具的理解的設計師。Maxfield以易於閱讀的風格寫作，為設計師和好奇的讀者提供了深入而多樣的信息。作者從未忘記自己的設計師根源，書中充滿了例子和專門用於吉比特收發器、線性反饋移位寄存器和第三方核心集成等應用的章節。-- EDN, 5/21/2004

可編程閘陣列（FPGAs）是一種為嵌入式系統設計師提供快速、低成本的方式來定制產品並提供升級功能的設備，因為它們可以處理非常複雜的功能，並且可以無限次重新配置。FPGAs近來變得更快、更強大，使它們適用於各種嵌入式產品。這在嵌入式領域創造了一個快速擴大的市場，需要設計師迅速學習如何使用FPGAs - 這本書可以幫助他們。

Clive 'Max' Maxfield是一位暢銷作家和工程師，在電子設計自動化（EDA）和嵌入式系統行業中有很多追隨者。在這本全面的書中，他涵蓋了所有對於在產品設計中使用FPGAs的設計師感興趣的問題，或者正在考慮轉向FPGAs的設計師。雖然其他書籍只涵蓋了FPGA技術或應用的片段，但這本書是第一本專門全面介紹FPGA在嵌入式系統中使用的書籍。

目錄：
介紹；基本概念；FPGAs的起源；替代FPGA架構；編程（配置）FPGA；所有參與者是誰？；FPGA與ASIC的比較；基於HDL的設計流程；硅虛擬原型；基於C/C++等的設計流程；基於DSP的設計流程；基於嵌入式處理器的設計流程；模塊化和增量設計；高速設計和其他PCB考慮因素；觀察FPGA內部節點；知識產權；將ASIC設計轉移到FPGAs和反之亦然；仿真、綜合、驗證等；選擇合適的設備；吉比特收發器；可重構計算；創建基於開源的設計流程；未來的FPGA發展；附錄A：信號完整性101；電容和電感耦合（串擾），芯片級效應，板級效應，延遲規格的演變；附錄B：深亚微米延迟效应101，各種定義，替代互連模型，DSM延遲效應摘要，Ouroboras，多對一實現；附錄C：線性反饋移位寄存器101，比你知道的更多的分支，種子LFSR，FIFO應用，修改LFSR以序列化2n值，訪問上一個值，加密和解密應用，循環冗余檢查應用，數據壓縮應用，內建自測應用，偽隨機數生成應用，最後但同樣重要，詞彙表，關於作者，索引。