books on altera FPGA

Altera_Forum · ‎08-11-2008

Hi,

i recently graduated from electrical engineering.

i am very much new to altera and VHDL.

i bought the DE2 board, read its tutorials and watched some of the on-line tutorials.

i was wondering if one might suggest a book specific for altera. one with practicle examples that both teach on good VHDL programming and good design techniques. the ideal book will be up-to-date, with examples i can implement and modify by my self and theory that is buckedup by practicle examples.

if such a book is not available then two or even three books will also be good.

my main goal is to work in the field.

Thanks and Regards, Ran.

Altera_Forum · ‎08-18-2008

Hi, have a look in Altera.com/literature. There are numerous pdf files and some design guidelines.

VHDL is very delicate and not obvious. You may get some course before : flip-flop, Finite state Machine.... you may have.

Keep in mind that VHDL describe logic behaviour, it's not a program.

A 'introduction to VHDL" would be appreciated.