Appropriate for all introductory-to-intermediate level courses in FPGAs, VLSI, and/or digital design.

Digital designs once built in custom silicon are increasingly implemented in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), but effective FPGA system design requires a strong understanding of VLSI issues and constraints, as well as an understanding of new techniques developed for FPGAs. Writing specifically for FPGA designers, Princeton Universitys Wayne Wolf first introduces the essentials of VLSI: fabrication, circuits, interconnects, combinational and sequential logic design, system architectures, and more. He then shows how to reflect this VLSI knowledge in a state-of-the-art design methodology that leverages FPGAs most valuable characteristics while mitigating its limitations. Wolf surveys FPGA fabrics, introduces essential FPGA concepts, and compares multiple approaches to solving basic problems in programmable logic. He offers comprehensive coverage of combinational and sequential logic design, including methods for specifying and optimizing digital logic to address size, speed, and power consumption. Along the way, he introduces the basics of Verilog, VHDL, and leading tools for optimizing logic and sequential machine designs. Wolf then turns to the structure of large digital systems, introducing the sophisticated register-transfer design methodology and presenting a simple DSP case study that addresses a wide variety of design problems. The book concludes with a detailed look at large-scale systems built with FPGAs, including platform FPGAs and multi-FPGA systems. Includes selected content from Wolfs widely-acclaimed book Modern VLSI Design.