The demand is exploding for complete, integrated systems that sense, process, manipulate, and control complex entities such as sound, images, text, motion, and environmental conditions. These systems, from hand-held devices to automotive sub-systems to aerospace vehicles, employ electronics to manage and adapt to a world that is, predominantly, neither digital nor electronic. To respond to this design challenge, the industry has developed and standardized VHDL-AMS, a unified design language for modeling digital, analog, mixed-signal, and mixed-technology systems. VHDL-AMS extends VHDL to bring the successful HDL modeling methodology of digital electronic systems design to these new design disciplines. Gregory Peterson and Darrell Teegarden join best-selling author Peter Ashenden in teaching designers how to use VHDL-AMS to model these complex systems. This comprehensive tutorial and reference provides detailed descriptions of both the syntax and semantics of the language and of successful modeling techniques. It assumes no previous knowledge of VHDL, but instead teaches VHDL and VHDL-AMS in an integrated fashion, just as it would be used by designers of these complex, integrated systems.
1. Cover image 2. Title page 3. Table of Contents 4. The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Systems on Silicon 5. Copyright 6. Dedication 7. Preface 8. Chapter 1: Fundamental Concepts 9. Chapter 2: Scalar Data Types, Natures and Operations 10. Chapter 3: Sequential Statements 11. Chapter 4: Composite Data Types and Operations 12. Chapter 5: Digital Modeling Constructs 13. Chapter 6: Analog Modeling Constructs 14. Chapter 7: Design Processing 15. Chapter 8: Case Study 1: Mixed-Signal Focus 16. Chapter 9: Subprograms 17. Chapter 10: Packages and Use Clauses 18. Chapter 11: Aliases 19. Chapter 12: Generic Constants 20. Chapter 13: Frequency and Transfer Function Modeling 21. Chapter 14: Case Study 2: Mixed-Technology Focus 22. Chapter 15: Resolved Signals 23. Chapter 16: Components and Configurations 24. Chapter 17: Generate Statements 25. Chapter 18: Case Study 3: DC-DC Power Converter 26. Chapter 19: Guards and Blocks 27. Chapter 20: Access Types and Abstract Data Types 28. Chapter 21: Files and Input/Output 29. Chapter 22: Attributes and Groups 30. Chapter 23: Case Study 4: Communication System 31. Chapter 24: Miscellaneous Topics 32. Chapter 25: Integrated System Modeling 33. Chapter 26: Case Study 5: RC Airplane System 34. Appendix A: Using SPICE Models in VHDL-AMS 35. Appendix B: The Predefined Package Standard 36. Appendix C: IEEE Standard Packages 37. Appendix D: Related Standards 38. Appendix E: VHDL-AMS Syntax 39. Appendix F: Answers to Exercises 40. Appendix G: CD-ROM Guide 41. References 42. Index
The demand is exploding for complete, integrated systems that sense, process, manipulate, and control complex entities such as sound, images, text, motion, and environmental conditions. These systems, from hand-held devices to automotive sub-systems to aerospace vehicles, employ electronics to manage and adapt to a world that is, predominantly, neither digital nor electronic. To respond to this design challenge, the industry has developed and standardized VHDL-AMS, a unified design language for modeling digital, analog, mixed-signal, and mixed-technology systems. VHDL-AMS extends VHDL to bring the successful HDL modeling methodology of digital electronic systems design to these new design disciplines. Gregory Peterson and Darrell Teegarden join best-selling author Peter Ashenden in teaching designers how to use VHDL-AMS to model these complex systems. This comprehensive tutorial and reference provides detailed descriptions of both the syntax and semantics of the language and of successful modeling techniques. It assumes no previous knowledge of VHDL, but instead teaches VHDL and VHDL-AMS in an integrated fashion, just as it would be used by designers of these complex, integrated systems.
1. Cover image 2. Title page 3. Table of Contents 4. The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Systems on Silicon 5. Copyright 6. Dedication 7. Preface 8. Chapter 1: Fundamental Concepts 9. Chapter 2: Scalar Data Types, Natures and Operations 10. Chapter 3: Sequential Statements 11. Chapter 4: Composite Data Types and Operations 12. Chapter 5: Digital Modeling Constructs 13. Chapter 6: Analog Modeling Constructs 14. Chapter 7: Design Processing 15. Chapter 8: Case Study 1: Mixed-Signal Focus 16. Chapter 9: Subprograms 17. Chapter 10: Packages and Use Clauses 18. Chapter 11: Aliases 19. Chapter 12: Generic Constants 20. Chapter 13: Frequency and Transfer Function Modeling 21. Chapter 14: Case Study 2: Mixed-Technology Focus 22. Chapter 15: Resolved Signals 23. Chapter 16: Components and Configurations 24. Chapter 17: Generate Statements 25. Chapter 18: Case Study 3: DC-DC Power Converter 26. Chapter 19: Guards and Blocks 27. Chapter 20: Access Types and Abstract Data Types 28. Chapter 21: Files and Input/Output 29. Chapter 22: Attributes and Groups 30. Chapter 23: Case Study 4: Communication System 31. Chapter 24: Miscellaneous Topics 32. Chapter 25: Integrated System Modeling 33. Chapter 26: Case Study 5: RC Airplane System 34. Appendix A: Using SPICE Models in VHDL-AMS 35. Appendix B: The Predefined Package Standard 36. Appendix C: IEEE Standard Packages 37. Appendix D: Related Standards 38. Appendix E: VHDL-AMS Syntax 39. Appendix F: Answers to Exercises 40. Appendix G: CD-ROM Guide 41. References 42. Index
