Part 3
Designer’s Toolbox
The third section of this book is a designer’s toolbox of functions.
These are relatively standard functions that occur in many designs
and test circuits, and so it is incredibly useful to have at least an ini-
tial design to evaluate rather than having to develop one from scratch.
The first chapter in this part (chapter 7) looks at serial communi-
cations, starting from the fundamentals of data transmission and
discussing a practical approach of incorporating USB into the
design. The next chapter (chapter 8) discusses digital filtering, with
a simple example to show how to take a standard Laplace (S
domain) description and implement it in a VHDL digital filter.
Chapter 9 is an introduction to an increasingly important topic ...