By Peter J. Ashenden
ISBN-10: 0080518362
ISBN-13: 9780080518367
ISBN-10: 1558607498
ISBN-13: 9781558607491
The call for is exploding for entire, built-in structures that experience, approach, manage, and keep an eye on complicated entities comparable to sound, photos, textual content, movement, and environmental stipulations. those platforms, from hand held units to car sub-systems to aerospace automobiles, hire electronics to control and adapt to a global that's, predominantly, neither electronic nor digital.
to answer this layout problem, the has built and standardized VHDL-AMS, a unified layout language for modeling electronic, analog, mixed-signal, and mixed-technology structures. VHDL-AMS extends VHDL to carry the profitable HDL modeling method of electronic digital structures layout to those new layout disciplines.
Gregory Peterson and Darrell Teegarden sign up for best-selling writer Peter Ashenden in instructing designers the right way to use VHDL-AMS to version those complicated platforms. This finished educational and reference offers distinctive descriptions of either the syntax and semantics of the language and of profitable modeling strategies. It assumes no past wisdom of VHDL, yet as a substitute teaches VHDL and VHDL-AMS in an built-in style, simply because it will be utilized by designers of those complicated, built-in platforms. * Explores the layout of an electric-powered, unmanned aerial motor vehicle process (UAV) in 5 separate case reports to demonstrate mixed-signal, mixed-technology, strength structures, verbal exchange platforms, and whole procedure modeling. * features a CD-ROM with code for all of the examples and case reviews within the booklet, an academic version library, a short reference advisor for VHDL-AMS, a syntax reference from Appendix E within the ebook, hyperlinks to VHDL-AMS assets and Mentor photos SystemVision software program, which gives a simulation and modeling setting with a schematic access software, a VHDL-AMS simulator, and a waveform viewing facility.