The Designer's Guide to VHDL, 2nd Edition

Foreword

Paul Menchini, Menchini & Associates, Durham, North Carolina, USA

In the five years since the publication of the first edition of The Designer’s Guide to VHDL, the pressures on designers leading to the initial creation of VHDL have continued to increase. Electronic systems have become pervasive in consumer and business appliances, with ever-tighter constraints on cost, performance and schedule. Medical and aircraft systems, where correctness and reliability concerns are paramount, are now heavily reliant on digital electronic controls. New and larger field-programmable devices have opened up entirely new application domains, with the concomitant need for new groups of designers to learn VHDL. At the same time, the commercial lifetime ...