Design Recipes for FPGAs: Using Verilog and VHDL

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VHDL-AMS

Introduction

With the increasingly high level of system integration it is becoming

necessary to model not only electronic behavior of systems, but

also interfaces to ‘real-world’ applications and the detailed physical

behavior of elements of the system in question. The emergence of

standard languages such as VHDL-AMS has made it possible to

now describe a variety of physical systems using a single design

approach and simulate a complete system. Application areas where

this is becoming increasingly important include mixed-signal elec-

tronics, electro-magnetic interfaces, integrated thermal modeling,

electro-mechanical and mechanical systems (including micro-electro-

mechanical systems, MEMS), fluidics (including hydraulics and

micro-fluidics), ...