Digital Design Using Digilent FPGA Boards: Verilog / Vivado Edition

This book assumes no previous knowledge of digital design. You start at the beginning learning about basic gates, logic equations, Boolean algebra, and Karnaugh maps. In over 75 examples we show you how to design digital circuits using Verilog, simulate them, and synthesize the designs to a Xilinx FPGA on one of the following Digilent FPGA boards available from: the Basys™2 Spartan-3E FPGA board, the Nexys™2 Spartan-3E FPGA board, the Nexys™3 Spartan-6 FPGA board, the Nexys™4 Artix-7 FPGA board, or the Basys3™ Artix-7 FPGA board. The differences between these boards are summarized in Appendix C. To simulate and synthesize your designs to a Xilinx FPGA, you will need to download the free Vivado HL WebPACK from Xilinx, Inc. A tutorial on using Vivado is given in Appendix A. Each of the FPGA boards will need its unique user constraints file (.ucf), which identifies specific pin numbers for a particular board (see Appendix C).