The university textbook Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems, from Springer, provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for undergraduate digital logic and computer design courses. Its more advanced topics and exercises make this textbook useful for upper-division courses in digital logic and programmable logic.
The book features:
- Two tutorials on the Altera CAD tool environment
- An overview of programmable logic
- A design library with several easy-to-use input and output functions
- Designs containing up to 20K gates
- CD-ROM
- Laboratory projects
Rapid Protoyping of Digital Systems contains several interesting and challenging laboratory projects involving serial communications, state machines with video output, video games and graphics, simple computers, keyboard and mouse interfaces, robotics, and a RISC procesor core. These projects were all developed on the student versions of the Altera® design software tools and can be implemented on the Altera UP1 board.
Detailed information on the book and related topics can be found on the author's web site at Georgia Tech.
