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Overview
VHDL-2008: Just the New Stuff, as its title says, introduces the new features added to the latest revision of the IEEE standard for the VHDL hardware description language. Written by the Chair and Technical Editor of the IEEE working group, the book is an authoritative guide to how the new features work and how to use them to improve design productivity. It will be invaluable for early adopters of the new language version, for tool implementers, and for those just curious about where VHDL is headed.* First in the market describing the new features of VHDL 2008;
* Just the new features, so existing users and implementers can focus on what's new;
* Helps readers to learn the new features soon, rather than waiting for new editions of complete VHDL reference books.
* Authoritative, written by experts in the area;
* Tutorial style, making it more accessible than the VHDL Standard Language Reference Manual.
Synopsis
VHDL-2008: Just the New Stuff, as its title says, introduces the new features added to the latest revision of the IEEE standard for the VHDL hardware description language. Written by the Chair and Technical Editor of the IEEE working group, the book is an authoritative guide to how the new features work and how to use them to improve design productivity. It will be invaluable for early adopters of the new language version, for tool implementers, and for those just curious about where VHDL is headed.
* First in the market describing the new features of VHDL 2008;
* Just the new features, so existing users and implementers can focus on what's new;
* Helps readers to learn the new features soon, rather than waiting for new editions of complete VHDL reference books.
* Authoritative, written by experts in the area;
* Tutorial style, making it more accessible than the VHDL Standard Language Reference Manual.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
Time flies: VHDL has been around for more than 20 years. This year, a major new version arrives: VHDL-2008. If you've used previous versions, you needn't learn the whole language: just what's new. That's the focus of this concise, well-crafted book.VHDL-2008: Just the New Stuff kicks off with a detailed introduction to the language's expanded support for generics, which offers powerful new opportunities for optimizing productivity through reuse. Peter Ashenden and Jim Lewis then illuminate other key enhancements, ranging from external names (which simplify design verification) to force and release (which make it easier to develop and execute test scenarios).
Ashenden and Lewis then systematically review changes to VHDL's type system, operations, statements, modeling and I/O features, standard packages, and more. There are code examples everywhere. Above all, the authors masterfully explain why each modification was made, and what you can do with it. Bill Camarda, from the February 2008 Read Only