Recomendation for a good VHDL book

[flote21]

Hi friends!

I want to extend my knowledge about VHDL design and I am thinking t buy a book where I can learn with practical examples how to make synthesizable RTL designs for very complicated like Ethernet interfaces, LVDS interfaces, etc.
And I would like to have some adavanced knowledge about programming advanced test benchs for modelsim.

Any advice?

 

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I have the following older books all of which discuss the 1990s syntax:
VHDL 2nd Ed. by Douglas Perry
VHDL for Programmable Logic by Kevin Skahill
HDL Chip Design by Douglas Smith

I recently bought.
Circuit Design and Simulation with VHDL by Volnei Pedroni

Out of all of them I like the Chip Design and the Pedroni books the best, though I initially learned VHDL (learned Verilog first) using the Perry book. I found it helpful to have the code for both VHDL and Verilog side by side and the synthesis results that you get with the Smith book. I primarily picked up the Pedroni book as it has all the updated language features that I never learned. Besides that I am too cheap and lazy to buy/read the IEEE LRM.

Regards

 

[axcdd]

I never found very advanced book that guide you completely for something like Ethernet interface (writing your own mac nowadays is useless imho -> u got cores ready or SOC-FPGA that will quickly do the job), and to be honest i read really alot. There is only book about writing usb 2.0 interface u can check it on amazon.

There are several HDL oriented good books as like
1. Coding styles and methodologies - Ben Cohen <-- strictly about code formating in VHDL (cons: very very old title, so read only if u got no coding styles in complany etc.)
2. Writing testbenches - functional verification of HDL Models (Verilog/VHDL) - Janick Bergeron --> but this book is more theoretical about testing circuits
3. 100 Power Tips For FPGA Designers - Evgeni Stavinov <-- really nice book expecially for FPGA designer beginner (but only xilinx oriented).
4. There is new book about constraining design, writing *.sdc files (Springer) - but haven't read it yet, cause its borrowed from my company library.