TITLE      Tutorial On Use of VHDL for Description of Digital Systems
COURSE #   AZNU218K
STATUS     Active
DURATION   6.0 Hours
AUDIENCE   This tutorial is intended for engineers, scientists, and
           instructors who are already familiar with digital system design.
ABSTRACT
                In this course an overview of the standard VHDL language will
           be presented and a description of hardware at various levels of
           abstraction will be illustrated.  During the introduction we will
           discuss the general concepts of hardware description languages,
           design environments, the emergence of VHDL, and levels of
           abstraction in VHDL.  This course continues with a presentation of
           several examples of the structural, dataflow, and behavioral levels
           of abstraction.  The examples will be used to illustrate the
           concepts of the language, and during the presentation of these
           examples, syntax and semantics of VHDL constructs that are used
           will be discussed.  Modeling styles for gates, logical structures,
           and state machines will be presented.  The concept of concurrency,
           resolution functions, and modeling three-state structures will be
           covered.
PREREQ.    Familiarity with digital system design.
OBJECTIVE  Upon completion of the course, participants will know how to:
            -   Understand general concepts of VHDL
            -   Use VHDL in component-based design
            -   Create simulation and documentation in VHDL
            -   Write behavioral VHDL models for general-purpose
                components
            -   Understand design management and use of libraries

            Friday, January 19, 1996
INSTRUCTOR  PRESENTER:  Zainalabedin Navabi is an adjunct professor of
            electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern
            University.  Dr. Navabi is the author of the textbook, VHDL:
            Analysis and Modeling of Hardware, 1993 McGraw-Hill.  For the
            last 15 years, Dr. Navabi has been involved in the design,
            definition and implementation of Hardware Description
            Languages.  He has written numerous papers on the application
            of HDLs in simulation, synthesis and test of digital systems.
            He started one of the first full VHDL courses at Northeastern
            University in 1989.  Since then he has conducted many short
            courses and tutorials on this subject in the United States and
            Japan.  He is also a consultant to CAE companies.  Dr. Navabi
            received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1981.  He
            is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of IEEE Computer
            Society, ACM, ASEE and Euromicro.