This directory contains

	The VHDL Cookbook
	First Edition (July 1990)

	(c) 1990, Peter J. Ashenden

This is a set of notes I put together for my Computer Architecture
class in 1990.  Students had a project in which they had to model a
microprocessor architecture of their choice.  They used these notes to
learn VHDL.  The notes cover the VHDL-87 version of the language.  Not
all of the language is covered (about 95%).

You may use this booklet for your own personal learning purposes.  You
may not use it for profit (eg, selling copies of it, using it in a
course for which people pay, etc).  If you want to make use of it
beyond these conditions, contact me and we can come to some
arrangement.

Since publishing these notes, I have written a full textbook version
called "The Designer's Guide to VHDL", published by Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, ISBN 1-55860-270-4.  The new book covers VHDL-93 (with
notes on backward compatibility to -87), and includes heaps of
examples, four full case studies, exercises, etc.  A Student Edition
of the Designer's Guide to VHDL will be available early in 1998.  For
more info on both editions see my web page,
http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~petera.

Files in this directory:

VHDL-Cookbook.cpt.Hqx is a binhex'ed compactor archive.  Get the file,
copy it to your Mac, use binhex 4.0 to extract VHDL-Cookbook.cpt, then
launch VHDL-Cookbook.cpt.  It will self-extract, producing a set of
Microsoft Word files.

VHDL-Cookbook.ps.tar.Z is a compressed tar archive containing
postscript files with the Apple Laser Prep kindly prepended by
alind@eng.clemson.edu (Alex Lind).  Get the archive using binary mode.
The original postscript was generated from the Microsoft Word
documents.

VHDL-Cookbook-paginated.ps.tar.Z is a compressed tar archive
containing the postscript files kindly processed by Mattias Hembruch
<mghembru@ece.uwaterloo.ca> so that Ghostview can identify the
individual pages and page numbers.

VHDL-Cookbook.winword20.zip is a PC ZIP archive containing the book in
Word for Windows format, kindly prepared by Jeff Marden
<jmarden@world.std.com>.  Get the archive using binary mode, then use
your favourite unzipper to extract the files.

VHDL-Cookbook.pdf is a PDF version kindly prepared by Tom Verhoeff
<wstomv@win.tue.nl>.  You can transfer it using binary mode ftp, then read it using the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

dp32.tar.Z is a compressed tar archive of the source files for the
DP-32 CPU decribed in the Cookbook.


Peter Ashenden <petera@cs.adelaide.edu.au>

Dept. Computer Science,
University of Adelaide, South Australia, 5005

27 February 1998

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