http://www.esawdust.com/blog/index.htmlFPGA newsenlandon@360vl.comCopyright 2009 Landon Cox2009-08-25T16:21:33-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:21:24 -0600landon@360vl.comFPGA2009-08-25T16:21:33-06:00http://www.esawdust.com/blog/blog/fpga/files/FPGABooks.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.esawdust.com/blog/blog/fpga/files/FPGABooks.html#unique-entry-id-0Synopsis: A list of recommended books on or using FPGA.

I recently queried my @esawdust twitter followers:

“Can anyone recommend a Computer Architecture book with labs based on an FPGA board and building core logic there to cement concepts?”

Of the responses I received, here is the list of books I found or that people recommended:

I got several votes for this now out-of-print book. The common refrain: “it’s my all-time favorite”. @electronicjunkie and @siliconfarmer both highly recommended:

Hdl Chip Design: A Practical Guide for Designing, Synthesizing & Simulating Asics & Fpgas Using Vhdl or Verilog

Though it’s out of print, you can still purchase copies through Amazon sellers - used. I don’t have a book cover image for the Hdl Chip Design book. This book is very expensive @ an average used price of about $135. Some were going for over $200. I hope it’s really good!

FPGA guru @jeriellsworth Jeri Ellsworth recommended:


$52.25 @ Amazon




@SiliconFarmer recommended this self-study guide:

$61.08 @ Amazon

I also thought this book looked quite good and it had many good reviews written for it on Amazon:


$76.90 @ Amazon

I expect this to begin a very long journey into a self-study of FPGAs, so I decided to buy all four of these books. They are definitely an investment (I hope). Not sure how else to teach myself this topic.

Back to the original question I put to the @esawdust followers...I would have loved to have found a full-on Computer Architecture book that lays the foundations for processors and microcode to have labs based on FPGAs. These books above are close but not quite what I was hoping to find. Imagine these books below with an FPGA lab at the end of every section and you’ll see what I was hoping to find:




In the meantime, I’m sure there’ll be PLENTY to study and learn and after that, maybe I’ll see why the book I’m looking for doesn’t exist.
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