ECE 4170 Resources

 

Course TA: Michael Bales (S’07)

Office Hours: 12:00 – 1:30 Tuesday, Thursday

Klaus 1446

Email: mbales3@gatech.edu

 

VHDL Tutorials

Modelsim Tutorials

Leonardo Tutorials

General VHDL Resources

Interesting Websites

VHDL Standards

 

1. The Language Reference Manual

 

2. Coding for Synthesis

 

VHDL Tutorials

1. The preliminary notes of Peter Ashenden’s book “The Designer’s Guide to VHDL”

 

 

2. Penn State University VHDL page

 

 

3. A VHDL Reference Manual

(many interesting resources can be found at http://cselab.snu.ac.kr/course/cad99/)

 

4. VHDL Tutorial by Green Mountain Computer Systems

 

 

5. VHDL Manual from the University of Ulm

 

 

6. Tutorial by University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

 

 

Modelsim Tutorials

1. Abbreviated tutorial for ECE 4170

 

2. A tutorial geared toward command-line use of ModelSim

http://www.tkt.cs.tut.fi/software/modeltech/tutorial/

 

3. Quick, barebones tutorial

http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~cs460/labnotes/modelsimtutorial.html

 

Leonardo Tutorials

(none yet)

 

General VHDL Resources

1. Hamburg VHDL Archive

http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl/vhdl.html

 

2. HDL Coding Styles by Xilinx

http://toolbox.xilinx.com/docsan/xilinx4/data/docs/sim/coding.html

 

3. A wealth of information on HDLs, development tools, and general EDA

http://www.vhdl.org/ OR http://www.eda.org/

 

4. A collection of tutorials, models, and guidelines.  Originally sponsored by DARPA

http://www.eda.org/rassp/vhdl/

 

5. VHDL Modeling course website from Mississippi State University

http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~reese/EE8993/

 

6. Another collection of web resources for VHDL and FPGAs

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/8831/vhdlfpga.html

 

Interesting Websites

1. An interesting online periodical about FPGAs and related design tools.  Several web-based tutorials and short courses are available

www.fpgajournal.com

 

2. Homepage of the SPIRIT Consortium, dedicated to standardizing IP core interchange

http://www.spiritconsortium.org/home

 

3. Open Core Protocol International Partnership, also dedicated to standardizing IP core interfaces

http://www.ocpip.org/home