Preface
This book is designed to be a desktop reference for engineers, stu-
dents and researchers who use Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(FPGA) as their hardware platform of choice. This book has been
produced in the spirit of the ‘numerical recipe’ series of books for
various programing languages – where the intention is not to teach
the language per se, but rather the philosophy and techniques
required, making your application work. The rationale of this book
is similar in that the intention is to provide the methods and under-
standing to make the reader able to develop practical, operational
VHDL that will run correctly on FPGAs.
It is important to stress that his book is not designed as a lan-
guage reference manual for VHDL. There are plenty of ...