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Advanced Digital Design With the Verilog Hdl

Ciletti, Michael D. ● 2004

For an advanced course in digital design for seniors and first-year graduate students in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science. This book builds on the student's background from a first course in logic design and focuses on developing, verifying, and synthesizing designs of digital circuits. The Verilog language is introduced in an integrated, but selective manner, only as needed to support design examples (includes appendices for additional language details). It addresses the design of several important circuits used in computer systems, digital signal processing, image processing, and other applications.

Why Read This Book

You should read this book if you want a course-style, hands-on treatment of synthesizable Verilog and practical digital design techniques with direct walkthroughs of Xilinx tool flows. It emphasizes design, verification, and synthesis of real circuits (FSMs, datapaths, pipelined arithmetic and DSP blocks), so you’ll learn to move from architecture to a working FPGA implementation.

Who Will Benefit

Senior undergraduate or first-year graduate students and practicing engineers who know basic logic design and want to master synthesizable Verilog and FPGA implementation using Xilinx tools.

Level: Intermediate — Prerequisites: Basic digital logic (combinational and sequential circuits), familiarity with Boolean algebra and finite state machines; some exposure to basic HDL concepts is helpful but not strictly required.

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Key Takeaways

  • Write synthesizable, tool-friendly Verilog for real hardware rather than simulation-only constructs.
  • Design and implement finite state machines and datapaths and integrate them into complete systems.
  • Apply pipelining, resource sharing, and timing-aware design techniques to improve performance on FPGAs.
  • Implement fixed-point arithmetic and basic DSP kernels efficiently for FPGA targets.
  • Use Xilinx ISE tool flows (student edition) to synthesize, map, place-and-route, and verify designs on target devices.
  • Construct thorough testbenches and use simulation to verify functional correctness before synthesis.

Topics Covered

  1. Introduction to Advanced Digital Design and Design Methodology
  2. Verilog HDL: Synthesizable Subset and Coding Guidelines
  3. Combinational Design Techniques and Implementation
  4. Sequential Circuits and Finite State Machines
  5. Datapath Design and Control: Integration Strategies
  6. Pipelining, Throughput, and Timing Optimization
  7. Arithmetic Circuits and Fixed-Point DSP Implementations
  8. Memory, Registers, and I/O Considerations for FPGAs
  9. Design for Synthesis: Constraints and Tool-Directed Coding
  10. Verification: Testbenches, Simulation, and Debugging
  11. Using the Xilinx 6.3 Student Edition: Synthesis to FPGA
  12. Case Studies and Design Examples (image processing, DSP, controllers)
  13. Appendices: Verilog Language Reference and Tool Notes

Languages, Platforms & Tools

Verilog (synthesizable subset, Verilog-2001 era)Xilinx FPGAs (ISE-era families such as Spartan/Virtex series)Xilinx ISE / Foundation (6.3 Student Edition)ModelSim or other HDL simulators (used for testbench/simulation)

How It Compares

More application- and synthesis-focused than Palnitkar's Verilog HDL (which is a language reference), and complements Pong Chu's FPGA Prototyping books by providing deeper digital-design/architecture discussion though Ciletti's tool examples use older Xilinx ISE versions.

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