Free VHDL ebooks from Springer

Snoopy · Apr 15th 2020

If someone is interested in VHDL programming, there are two VHDL ebooks from Brock J. LaMeres published by Springer for free download as PDF and epub:

Quick Start Guide to VHDL (2019)

Introduction to Logic Circuits & Logic Design with VHDL (2nd ed. 2019)

Normally the first book costs about 50 EUR and the second one about 60 EUR as ebooks.

The free offer of ebooks should be a positive sign from Springer for free education during the Corona time and will be for free at least until the end of July 2020 (regarding to Springer).

R4M.S · Apr 16th 2020

The Quick Start Guide is actually pretty good. That was one of the books I used to learn HDL.

Unseen · Apr 16th 2020

Both of them appear to describe VHDL for modelling, not for synthesis.

A quick way to check that in any work is to look up the description of delayed assignments - as far as I know every synthesis tool ignores the specified delay, timing must be explicitly modeled using clock edges.