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Top-Down Digital VLSI Design
From Architectures to Gate-Level Circuits and FPGAs
- 1st Edition - December 4, 2014
- Author: Hubert Kaeslin
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 7 3 0 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 7 7 2 - 3
Top-Down VLSI Design: From Architectures to Gate-Level Circuits and FPGAs represents a unique approach to learning digital design. Developed from more than 20 years teaching… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTop-Down VLSI Design: From Architectures to Gate-Level Circuits and FPGAs represents a unique approach to learning digital design. Developed from more than 20 years teaching circuit design, Doctor Kaeslin’s approach follows the natural VLSI design flow and makes circuit design accessible for professionals with a background in systems engineering or digital signal processing. It begins with hardware architecture and promotes a system-level view, first considering the type of intended application and letting that guide your design choices.
Doctor Kaeslin presents modern considerations for handling circuit complexity, throughput, and energy efficiency while preserving functionality. The book focuses on application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which along with FPGAs are increasingly used to develop products with applications in telecommunications, IT security, biomedical, automotive, and computer vision industries. Topics include field-programmable logic, algorithms, verification, modeling hardware, synchronous clocking, and more.
- Demonstrates a top-down approach to digital VLSI design.
- Provides a systematic overview of architecture optimization techniques.
- Features a chapter on field-programmable logic devices, their technologies and architectures.
- Includes checklists, hints, and warnings for various design situations.
- Emphasizes design flows that do not overlook important action items and which include alternative options when planning the development of microelectronic circuits.
Students in upper undergraduate or graduate courses on studying VLSI and microelectronics, professional system engineers working in these areas
- Preface
- Why this book?
- Highlights
- Notes to instructors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Microelectronics
- Abstract
- 1.1 Economic impact
- 1.2 Microelectronics viewed from different perspectives
- 1.3 The VLSI design flow
- 1.4 Problems
- 1.5 Appendix I: a brief glossary of logic families
- 1.6 Appendix II: an illustrated glossary of circuit-related terms
- Chapter 2: Field-Programmable Logic
- Abstract
- 2.1 General idea
- 2.2 Configuration technologies
- 2.3 Organization of hardware resources
- 2.4 Commercial aspects
- 2.5 Extensions of the basic idea
- 2.6 The FPL design flow
- 2.7 Conclusions
- Chapter 3: From Algorithms to Architectures
- Abstract
- 3.1 The goals of architecture design
- 3.2 The architectural solution space
- 3.3 Dedicated vlsi architectures and how to design them
- 3.4 Equivalence transforms for combinational computations
- 3.5 Options for temporary storage of data
- 3.6 Equivalence transforms for non-recursive computations
- 3.7 Equivalence transforms for recursive computations
- 3.8 Generalizations of the transform approach
- 3.9 Conclusions
- 3.10 Problems
- 3.11 Appendix I: A brief glossary of algebraic structures
- 3.12 Appendix II: Area and delay figures of VLSI subfunctions
- Chapter 4: Circuit Modeling with Hardware Description Languages
- Abstract
- 4.1 Motivation and background
- 4.2 Key concepts and constructs of VHDL
- 4.2.3 A discrete replacement for electrical signals
- 4.2.4 An event-driven scheme of execution
- 4.2.5 Facilities for model parametrization
- 4.2.6 Concepts borrowed from programming languages
- 4.3 Key concepts and constructs of systemverilog
- 4.3.6 Concepts borrowed from programming languages
- 4.4 Automatic circuit synthesis from hdl models
- 4.5 Conclusions
- 4.6 Problems
- 4.7 Appendix I: VHDL and systemverilog side by side
- 4.8 Appendix II: VHDL extensions and standards
- Chapter 5: Functional Verification
- Abstract
- 5.1 Goals of design verification
- 5.2 How to establish valid functional specifications
- 5.3 Preparing effective simulation and test vectors
- 5.4 Consistency and efficiency considerations
- 5.5 Testbench coding and hdl simulation
- 5.6 Conclusions
- 5.7 Problems
- 5.8 Appendix I: Formal approaches to functional verification
- 5.9 Appendix II: Deriving a coherent schedule for simulation and test
- Chapter 6: The Case For Synchronous Design
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 The grand alternatives for regulating state changes
- 6.3 Why a rigorous approach to clocking is essential in VLSI
- 6.4 The dos and donts of synchronous circuit design
- 6.5 Conclusions
- 6.6 Problems
- 6.7 Appendix: on identifying signals
- Chapter 7: Clocking of Synchronous Circuits
- Abstract
- 7.1 What is the difficulty with clock distribution?
- 7.2 How much skew and jitter does a circuit tolerate?
- 7.3 How to keep clock skew within tight bounds
- 7.4 How to achieve friendly input/output timing
- 7.5 How to implement clock gating properly
- 7.6 Summary
- 7.7 Problems
- Chapter 8: Acquisition of Asynchronous Data
- Abstract
- 8.1 Motivation
- 8.2 Data consistency in vectored acquisition
- 8.3 Data consistency in scalar acquisition
- 8.4 Marginal triggering and metastability
- 8.5 Summary
- 8.6 Problems
- Appendix A: Elementary Digital Electronics
- A.1 Introduction
- A.2 Theoretical background of combinational logic
- A.3 Circuit alternatives for implementing combinational logic
- A.4 Bistables and other memory circuits
- A.5 Transient behavior of logic circuits
- A.6 Timing quantities
- A.7 Basic microprocessor input/output transfer protocols
- A.8 Summary
- Appendix B: Finite State Machines
- B.1 Abstract automata
- B.2 Practical aspects and implementation issues
- B.3 Summary
- Appendix C: Symbols and Constants
- C.1 Abbreviations
- C.2 Mathematical symbols
- C.3 Physical and material constants
- Bibliography
- Index
- No. of pages: 598
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 4, 2014
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128007303
- eBook ISBN: 9780128007723
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Hubert Kaeslin
Since 1989, Hubert Kaeslin has headed the Micro-electronics Design Center of ETH Zurich, which taped out more than 300 circuit designs under his supervision over the past 23 years, both for research and educational purposes. He has written more than 75 scientific papers and his professional interests extend to digital signal processing, IT security, graph theory, and visual formalisms. Dr. Kaeslin is a Senior Member of IEEE and has been awarded the title of professor by ETH in 2010.
Affiliations and expertise
Head of the Micro-electronics Design Center of ETH, Zurich, SwitzerlandRead Top-Down Digital VLSI Design on ScienceDirect