Verilog HDL synthesis

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1. jeremycwNov 2016
   I remember reading Verilog HDL Synthesis: A Practical Primer by J. Bhasker in University and found it incredibly useful for learning the synthesizable subset of Verilog and all the unwritten rules of how you need to write the code to make it synthesize a certain way.

   I used that knowledge to write tetris in Verilog that output to VGA which after testing at the wave level in editor worked the first time I actually loaded it onto real hardware.[0]

   [0] https://github.com/jeremycw/tetris-verilog

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2. CamperBobJul 2009
   I've heard good things about that book by Douglas Smith but haven't looked at it yet.

   Out of several (expensive) books I do have, these are the ones that've been most helpful:

   - Verilog HDL Synthesis by Bhasker - FPGA Prototyping by Verilog Examples by Pong P. Chu - Advanced FPGA Design by Kilts - The two "Learning By Example using Verilog" books by Richard Haskell (these are actually written specifically for use with the Digilent Nexys2 board I mentioned in an earlier post)

   Many of the others are impractical, academic junk that waste your time with things like gate-level design, Karnaugh maps and the like that are handled by the synthesis tool nowadays. Unless you are writing a synthesis tool you don't need 75% of what's in most HDL textbooks.

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