Preface to the First Edition

This book is designed to be a desktop reference for engineers, students and researchers who use field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as their hardware platform of choice. This book has been produced in the spirit of the “numerical recipe” series of books for various programming languages – where the intention is not to teach the language per se, but rather the philosophy and techniques required in making your application work. The rationale of this book is similar in that the intention is to provide the methods and understanding to enable the reader to develop practical, operational VHDL that will run correctly on FPGAs.

It is important to stress that this book is not designed as a language reference manual for ...

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