EMBEDDED CORE DESIGN WITH FPGAS

New Features:

• Embedded design is the new wave in digital systems design. This book pulls together Logic Design, Computer Architecture, Verilog, and FPGAs and shows how an engineer can utilize his or her computer engineering background for design of embedded systems
• The heart of an embedded system is a processor. This book shows how a processor can be designed from scratch and by use of new EDA tools, and how it interfaces with its software. It shows how a processor and its software can be used as an embedded core and used for the design of an embedded system. The book shows the important role of a compiler in the design of hardware
• This is one place that an engineering student can see how his or her learnings can help him or her in design of real systems. Because of the necessary background information, undergraduate courses can only concentrate on one topic of hardware design. Often, a student passes a computer architecture course without really understanding the detailed inter-workings of a processor. A book like this build shows how real designs are done.
• Altera's software and new UP3 development board are used for implementing designs, making the book very practical and with a very specific target. All modern EDA design tools are discussed and used in this book.
• Marketing support from Altera through their University Program, with potential for substantial buyback! Navabi is heavily connected with Altera which purchased 2000 copies of a book he wrote for Springer on Altera's older UP2.

Zainalabedin Navabi, Ph.D., is professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. Dr. Navabi is the author of several textbooks and computer based trainings on VHDL, Verilog and related tools and environments. Dr. Navabi's involvement with hardware description languages began in 1976 when he started the development of a register-transfer level simulator for one of the very first Hardware Description Languages (HDLs). In 1981 he completed the development of a synthesis tool that generated MOS layout from an RTL description. Since 1981, Dr. Navabi has been involved in the design, definition and implementation of HDLs. He has written numerous papers on the application of HDLs in simulation, synthesis and test of digital systems. He started one of the first full HDL courses at Northeastern University in 1990. Since then he has conducted many short courses and tutorials on this subject in the United States and abroad. In addition to being a professor, he is also a consultant to Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies. Dr. Navabi received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1978 and 1981, and his B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of IEEE Computer Society, ASEE, and ACM. Dr. Navabi is the author of six books on various aspects of digital system design automation.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1: Elements of Embedded Design

Chapter 2: Logic Design Concepts

Chapter 3: RTL Design with Verilog

Chapter 4: Computer Hardware and Software

Chapter 5: Field Programmable Devices

Chapter 6: Tools for Design and Prototyping

Chapter 7: Design of Utility Hardware Cores

Chapter 8: Design with Embedded Processors

Chapter 9: Design of an Embedded System

APPENDIX A: NIOS II INSTRUCTION SET

APPENDIX B: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

INDEX