Verilog Book Recommendation

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I recommend Verilog HDL by Samir Palnitkar. It is the best Verilog book for a beginner (people who never been exposed to HDLs but familiar with logic design). The author explains exactly what's going on in each line of the code. Other authors usually just give you a bunch of examples without explanation. The book helped me to complete my projects with great success. For more explanation please see my review at amazon.com.

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I recommend Verilog HDL by Samir Palnitkar. It is the best Verilog book for a beginner (people who never been exposed to HDLs but familiar with logic design). The author explains exactly what's going on in each line of the code. Other authors usually just give you a bunch of examples without explanation. The book helped me to complete my projects with great success. For more explanation please see my review at amazon.com.

Hendra

Al, Also note that Verilog /= VHDL

If you are interested in VHDL, I like: A VHDL Primer by J Bhasker.

Cheers, Jim

Jim Lewis wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

Thanks Jim,

I know that Verilog is not VHDL. I was just trying to point out that I don't have that background either.

I am using Verilog because a portion of my project was already written in Verilog by someone else.

Al

One suggestion, always write your synthesizable code from the examples given by the tool vendors. Both VHDL and Verilog will compile and simulate code that can no be synthesized. So design your hardware first, as a block diagram or in any other form that lets you see the registers and blocks of logic. Then write your code using the examples the vendors provide for the various blocks in your diagram.

When used to build hardware, HDLs are not programming languages. They are hardware description languages, hence HDL, not HPL.

Might want to check out "HDL Chip Design" by Douglas H. Smith.

Teaches Verilog, VHDL, and shows the schematic equivalent next to the code.

-- Pete

Al Clark wrote:

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There are several good threads on comp.lang.verilog

A book I've found useful as a reference is: The Verilog Hardware Description Language

by Thomas & Moorby