For those with a basic understanding of digital design, this book teaches the essential skills to design digital integrated circuits using Verilog and the relevant extensions of SystemVerilog. In addition to covering the syntax of Verilog and SystemVerilog, the author provides an appreciation of design challenges and solutions for producing working circuits. The book covers not only the syntax and limitations of HDL coding, but deals extensively with design problems such as partitioning and synchronization, helping you to produce designs that are not only logically correct, but will actually work when turned into physical circuits. Throughout the book, many small examples are used to validate concepts and demonstrate how to apply design skills. This book takes readers who have already learned the fundamentals of digital design to the point where they can produce working circuits using modern design methodologies. It clearly explains what is useful for circuit design and what parts of the languages are only software, providing a non-theoretical, practical guide to robust, reliable and optimized hardware design and development. - Produce working hardware: Covers not only syntax, but also provides design know-how, addressing problems such as synchronization and partitioning to produce working solutions - Usable examples: Numerous small examples throughout the book demonstrate concepts in an easy-to-grasp manner - Essential knowledge: Covers the vital design topics of synchronization, essential for producing working silicon; asynchronous interfacing techniques; and design techniques for circuit optimization, including partitioning

Ronald Mehler is a professor of electrical and computing engineering at California State University, Northridge. Before joining the faculty at CSUN, he worked in private industry for 20 years, mostly designing integrated circuits using hardware description languages and logic synthesis. The primary focus of his research has been on design automation for application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) development.

1. Introduction 2. Bottom-up design 3. Behavioral coding: Blocks, variables and operators 4. Behavioral coding: Parameters, defined and enumerated types 5. Behavioral coding: Loops, branching, arrays and other high-level constructs 6. Behavioral coding: Subroutines 7. Synchronization 8. Simulation, timing and race conditions 9. Architectural choices 10. Design for testability 11. Library modeling 12. Design examples