Design Recipes for FPGAs, 2nd Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

The original idea behind the first edition of this book was to collect some of the useful methods for designing digital systems using FPGAs that I had accumulated over the years and had been passing on to students in our courses at the University of Southampton. As a result, the original book was written using VHDL, as this was very often the hardware description language of choice for university students and for many courses (as was the case at Southampton).

The intervening time has seen the development of other options, such as System-C or System-Verilog (plus the continuing popularity of Verilog). One of the common questions to me was “Why is there not a Verilog edition of this book?”. I have therefore taken ...