The Luddite Needs Reference Books...

Oct 22, 2003 5 Replies

Luddite Me, who's forgotten most of the Verilog he once knew, needs to start doing serious HDL-based design. No more schematic-orphans for me.



Are there good reference books for Verilog or VHDL? Ideally, something akin to Java in a Nutshell (Java), the Post Script Red (language reference) and Blue (tutorial and cookbook) series, or K&R?



Thanks.


Nicholas C. Weaver nweaver@cs.berkeley.edu

Sounds like you need a copy of the verilog standard. You can buy it on ieee's site, its about $100.

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Nicholas,

I still use Palnitkar's _Verilog HDL_ book, along with Stuart Sutherland's _Verilog 2001_ book and reference guides (which came with the book).

There may be an updated version of the former -- I bought it in 1996

-- but it still covers most of the stuff that'll jog your memory. The latter explicitly details the differences between Verilog-95 and Verilog-2001.

You probably want a copy of Janick Bergeron's _Writing Test Benches_, too, as it has a lot of good stuff.

-a

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