Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems

Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for undergraduate digital logic and computer design courses using FPGAs and CAD tools for simulation and hardware implementation. The more advanced topics and exercises also make this text useful for upper level courses in digital logic, programmable logic, and embedded systems. The SOPC edition includes Altera’s new Quartus II CAD tool and includes laboratory projects for Altera’s DE2 and the new DE1 FPGA boards. Student laboratory projects provided on the book’s DVD include video graphics and text, mouse and keyboard input, and several computer designs.

Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems includes four tutorials on the Altera Quartus II and Nios II tool environment, an overview of programmable logic, and IP cores with several easy-to-use input and output functions. These features were developed to help students get started quickly. Early design examples use schematic capture and IP cores developed for the Altera UP and DE FPGA boards. VHDL is used for more complex designs after a short introduction to VHDL-based synthesis. Verilog is also now supported as an option for the student projects.