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15 years ago

VHDL textbook recommendation(s)

If you could recommend one textbook for VHDL, what would it be? I am looking for one book good enough to learn VHDL and then become a reference. Preferably, it should cover both synthesis and...
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15 years ago

I'm currently reading from Pedroni as well. I like how concise it is, but apparently its quite dated. For example the ieee.std_logic_arith is no longer supposed to be used because it doesn't provide overrides for mixing signed and unsigned functions. At least, thats what wiki says:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/numeric_std (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/numeric_std)

Also, Tricky and a few other posters that I've read have indicated that this package isn't good to use any longer.