A Guide to VHDL

As the author, I wrote this book as an introduction for someone who wanted to learn to use this design language. It is not particulary suitable as a reference guide, but instead is organized to help you grasp the fundamental relationships and organization of the VHDL language. Even for experienced programmers some of the concepts are a bit hard at first. We try also to include the motivations and uses for various features. There are a number of simple examples included. I hope you enjoy and use this book. stan mazor

I just borrowed the book from the library and I am reading through it to understand VHDL. It is good for my background: I know more than ten programming languages, know digital logic design, and is familiar with Verilog. I had read a few other VHDL books, but was kind of confused by their writing styles. I like this book because it tells the rationals behind the VHDL design. It is focused on the design of the language itself. The other books I read tried to cover many things like microprocessor design or DSP design, but didn't clarify why VHDL uses concepts like entity, architecture, process, etc. For a professional, it is fast to learn VHDL from this book. But this book is possibly not a good book for a student because of its focus. It lacks detail (not a good reference book) and doesn't have many examples.

If you want to build a solid foundation in VHDL, this is the book to buy. I absolutely loved it.