February 2009
Intermediate to advanced
488 pages
13h 51m
English
This chapter—which was written by Brian C. Richards, Chen Chang, John Wawrzynek,Robert W. Brodersen—comes from the book Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computation edited by Scott Hauck and André DeHon, ISBN: 9780123705228. (Phew, try saying this ten times quickly.)The book itself is divided into six major parts—hardware, programming, compilation/ mapping, application development, case studies, and future trends. The chapter presented here comes from “Part II: Programming Reconfigurable Systems.”“Although a system designer can use hardware description languages, such as VHDL and Verilog to program field-programmable gate arrays ...