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Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs ReviewI bought this book to get started on FPGA design.
I found the book to be an mixture of high level concepts (how to test designs, design methodology) and low level (converting async. logic to sync.). With my little knowledge of Verilog this was fairly useful.
I can't help feeling that the book is aimed at engineering managers rather than engineers.
I liked the explanation of the internal structure of various PLDs. This gives a reasonable understanding of how these devices work, which is always a good thing. I also liked the design/test guidelines in Chapter 5. This gives a good overview of pitfalls and a basis for attacking a design, albeit quite briefly.
I didn't like the brevity and the 'overview' nature of much of the material. The book needs a big brother to actually get into the topics properly - I believe the Author has written a good book on Verilog so maybe that helps. I found the chapter on tools very dissappointing - it left me with a vague understanding of the various tools, but I would have liked a summary of available tools and information on costs and performance.
Taking out the questions and a few over-long code samples, the book has only around 150 pages of actual material, in fairly large print. It took 2-3 hours to read carefully.
Overall this book is a strange animal, but I found it fairly useful.Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs Overview* Choose the right programmable logic devices and development tools * Understand the design, verification, and testing issues * Plan schedules and allocate resources efficiently Choose the right programmable logic devices with this guide to the technologDesigning with FPGAs and CPLDs guides readers through choosing the right programmable logic devices, understanding the design, verification, and testing issues involved with them, and more.

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