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TITLE: NEW TEXT ON VHDL-AMS WITH SYSTEMVISION SOFTWARE
The System Designer's Guide to VHDL-AMS: Analog, Mixed-Signal,
and Mixed-Technology Modeling
Peter J. Ashenden, Gregory D. Peterson, and Darrell A. Teegarden
The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Systems on Silicon
September 2002
938 pages
Paper
$64.95
ISBN 1-55860-749-8
To Order: BOOK
Overview:
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.
Features:
Explores the design of an electric-powered, unmanned aerial
vehicle system (UAV) in five separate case studies to illustrate
mixed-signal, mixed-technology, power systems, communication
systems, and full system modeling.
Includes a CD-ROM with code for all the examples and case studies
in the book, an educational model library, a quick reference
guide for VHDL-AMS, a syntax reference from Appendix E in the
book, links to VHDL-AMS resources and Mentor Graphics
SystemVision software, which provides a simulation and modeling
environment with a schematic entry tool, a VHDL-AMS simulator,
and a waveform viewing facility.
Authors:
Peter J. Ashenden received his B.Sc.(Hons) and Ph.D. from the
University of Adelaide, Australia. He was previously a senior
lecturer in computer science and is now a Visiting Research
Fellow at the University of Adelaide. His research interests are
computer organization and electronic design automation. Dr.
Ashenden is also an independent consultant specializing in
electronic design automation (EDA). He is actively involved in
IEEE working groups developing VHDL standards, is the author of
The Designer's Guide to VHDL and The Student's Guide to VHDL and
co-editor of the Morgan Kaufmann series, Systems on Silicon. He
is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.
Gregory D. Peterson is an assistant professor in electrical and
computer engineering at the University of Tennessee. Previously,
he was the chief technical officer at FTL Systems, a VHDL-AMS
tool vendor, as well as a captain at the Air Force Research
Laboratory. Dr. Peterson was the program manager for the VHDL-AMS
language reference manual development contract, a participant in
the VHDL-AMS standardization activities, and chair of the
Accellera Users' Group targeting VHDL-AMS and related HDL
technologies. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of
the ACM.
Darrell A. Teegarden has over fifteen years of experience in
development of HDL-based models and software tools. His work
includes contributions using the MAST(r) modeling language as
well as development of VHDL-AMS models and simulation tools. He
was principal investigator for a DARPA funded VHDL-AMS project
(composite CAD program, focused at MEMS design and analysis). He
currently manages VHDL-AMS related tool development for board and
system analysis at Mentor Graphics Corporation in Wilsonville,
Oregon. Darrell is an IEEE member and holds a B.S., Chemical
Engineering from Oregon State University and an M.S., Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University.
Table of Contents:
1 Fundamental Concepts
2 Scalar Data Types, Natures and Operations
3 Sequential Statements
4 Composite Data Types and Operations
5 Digital Modeling Constructs
6 Analog Modeling Constructs
7 Design Processing
8 Case Study 1: Mixed-Signal Focus
9 Subprograms
10 Packages and Use Clauses
11 Aliases
12 Generic Constants
13 Frequency and Transfer Function Modeling
14 Case Study 2: Mixed-Technology Focus
15 Resolved Signals
16 Components and Configurations
17 Generate Statements
18 Case Study 3: DC-DC Power Converter
19 Guards and Blocks
21 Files and Input/Output
22 Attributes and Groups
23 Case Study 4: Communication System
24 Miscellaneous Topics
25 Integrated System Modeling
26 Case Study 5: RC Airplane System
A Using SPICE Models in VHDL-AMS
B The Predefined Package Standard
C IEEE Standard Packages
D Related Standards
E VHDL-AMS Syntax
F Answers to Exercises
G CD-ROM Guide
References
Index
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Announcing the Availability of SystemVision
Mentor Graphics BRIDGES THE GAP between math-based system
architecture modeling and component level circuit prototying with
their BREAK-THROUGH, SystemVision(tm) analysis platform
leveraging the standard language (IEEE Std. 1076.1 - VHDL-AMS)
for math-based computer-aided prototyping.
SystemVision 2002 includes graphical design entry, VHDL-AMS and
SPICE modeling and library tools, leading-edge simulation
technology, and powerful waveform viewing and analysis tools, all
on an MS Windows platform.
Highlights
* SystemVision 2002 - Educational
Free 90-day Renewable Educational Version Available for Student Use
* Open Source VHDL-AMS Model Library included in both Educational
and Professional versions
SystemVision 2002 Professional is now available through the
Mentor Graphics Higher Education Program.
Contact:
Shanthi Pattison
Business Development Manager
Higher Education Program
Mentor Graphics Corporation
PH: 503-685-1691
FAX: 503-685-1518
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