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The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs (Edn Series for Design Engineers)
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by Clive "Max" Maxfield
Sales Rank: 339144
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Discount: 35 %
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Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Newnes; Pap/Cdr edition April 12, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0750676043
ISBN-13: 978-0750676045
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Product Review
a must-read bookMaxfield writes in a easy-to-read style, and provides insightful and diverse information. -- EDN
Everything you ever wanted to know about FPGAsWritten in an entertaining styleValuable resource for seasoned engineers and novices. -- EE Times
great source of knowledge to the FPGA newcomer broadens the veteran designer's knowledgea fun and engaging read. -- Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture
True to form, his latest book on FPGAs is enjoyable to read. Yet it's also rich in the technical details that any modern designer would need. - Wireless Systems Design, August 2004
Book Description
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices that provide a fast, low-cost way for embedded system designers to customize products and deliver new versions with upgraded features, because they can handle very complicated functions, and be reconfigured an infinite number of times. In addition to introducing the various architectural features available in the latest generation of FPGAs, The Design Warriors Guide to FPGAs also covers different design tools and flows.
This book covers information ranging from schematic-driven entry, through traditional HDL/RTL-based simulation and logic synthesis, all the way up to the current state-of-the-art in pure C/C++ design capture and synthesis technology. Also discussed are specialist areas such as mixed hardward/software and DSP-based design flows, along with innovative new devices such as field programmable node arrays (FPNAs).
Clive "Max" Maxfield is a bestselling author and engineer with a large following in the electronic design automation (EDA)and embedded systems industry. In this comprehensive book, he covers all the issues of interest to designers working with, or contemplating a move to, FPGAs in their product designs. While other books cover fragments of FPGA technology or applications this is the first to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use for embedded systems.
* First book to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use in embedded designs
* World-renowned best-selling author
* Will help engineers get familiar and succeed with this new technology by providing much-needed advice on choosing the right FPGA for any design project
Customer Reviews & Comments
I am an EE with no previous FPGA experience. Some of the reviews here made me think this book might be a good stepping stone. Completely wrong. The title of the book is misleading, in my opinion. For the engineer wanting to get started using FPGAs this book is utterly without merit. Why did I give it any stars then? Well, I'm assuming that the nebulously defined 'wide audience' the book was really written for is non-technical managers who need enough of an understanding of common acronyms and terminology to impress their even-less-technical bosses, accounting, and HR people and to be able to relay communications without garbling the message too badly. The author devotes a tremendous amount of space to making sure you know how to pronounce the relevant acronyms like 'FPGA', 'SRAM', etc. The author also sedulously avoids any 'brass tacks' kind of information in an effort to keep his book from becoming obsolete too soon. In my opinion this strategy is like making something useless to begin with, so it won't *become* useless later. Having read this book (it's a fast read: low information density, much repetition, large margins (for acronym pronunciation and largely irrelevant history trivia), and big print.) I think a manager needing a survey of FPGAs and especially terminology might find this useful. To anyone wanting to actually implement something in an FPGA look somewhere else.
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