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Book The Verilog   Hardware Description Language

Download or read book The Verilog Hardware Description Language written by Donald Thomas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: XV From the Old to the New xvii Acknowledgments xx| Verilog A Tutorial Introduction Getting Started 2 A Structural Description 2 Simulating the binaryToESeg Driver 4 Creating Ports For the Module 7 Creating a Testbench For a Module 8 Behavioral Modeling of Combinational Circuits 11 Procedural Models 12 Rules for Synthesizing Combinational Circuits 13 Procedural Modeling of Clocked Sequential Circuits 14 Modeling Finite State Machines 15 Rules for Synthesizing Sequential Systems 18 Non-Blocking Assignment ("

Book IEEE Std 1364 2005  Revision of IEEE Std 1364 2001

Download or read book IEEE Std 1364 2005 Revision of IEEE Std 1364 2001 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Verilog     2001

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stuart Sutherland
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780792375685
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Verilog 2001 written by Stuart Sutherland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IEEE 1364-2001 standard, nicknamed `Verilog-2001', is the first major update to the Verilog language since its inception in 1984. This book presents 45 significant enhancements contained in Verilog-2001 standard. A few of the new features described in this book are: ANSI C style port declarations for modules, primitives, tasks and functions; Automatic tasks and functions (re-entrant tasks and recursive functions); Multidimensional arrays of any data type, plus array bit and part selects; Signed arithmetic extensions, including signed data types and sign casting; Enhanced file I/O capabilities, such as $fscanf, $fread and much more; Enhanced deep submicron timing accuracy and glitch detection; Generate blocks for creating multiple instances of modules and procedures; Configurations for true source file management within the Verilog language. This book assumes that the reader is already familiar with using Verilog. It supplements other excellent books on how to use the Verilog language, such as The Verilog Hardware Description Language, by Donald Thomas and Philip Moorby (Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN: 0-7923-8166-1) and Verilog Quickstart: A Practical Guide to Simulation and Synthesis, by James Lee (Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN: 0-7923-8515-2).

Book Verilog HDL

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samir Palnitkar
  • Publisher : Prentice Hall Professional
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780130449115
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book Verilog HDL written by Samir Palnitkar and published by Prentice Hall Professional. This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VERILOG HDL, Second Editionby Samir PalnitkarWith a Foreword by Prabhu GoelWritten forboth experienced and new users, this book gives you broad coverage of VerilogHDL. The book stresses the practical design and verification perspective ofVerilog rather than emphasizing only the language aspects. The informationpresented is fully compliant with the IEEE 1364-2001 Verilog HDL standard. Among its many features, this edition- bull; bull;Describes state-of-the-art verification methodologies bull;Provides full coverage of gate, dataflow (RTL), behavioral and switch modeling bull;Introduces you to the Programming Language Interface (PLI) bull;Describes logic synthesis methodologies bull;Explains timing and delay simulation bull;Discusses user-defined primitives bull;Offers many practical modeling tips Includes over 300 illustrations, examples, and exercises, and a Verilog resource list.Learning objectives and summaries are provided for each chapter. About the CD-ROMThe CD-ROM contains a Verilog simulator with agraphical user interface and the source code for the examples in the book. Whatpeople are saying about Verilog HDL- "Mr.Palnitkar illustrates how and why Verilog HDL is used to develop today'smost complex digital designs. This book is valuable to both the novice and theexperienced Verilog user. I highly recommend it to anyone exploring Verilogbased design." -RajeevMadhavan, Chairman and CEO, Magma Design Automation "Thisbook is unique in its breadth of information on Verilog and Verilog-relatedtopics. It is fully compliant with the IEEE 1364-2001 standard, contains allthe information that you need on the basics, and devotes several chapters toadvanced topics such as verification, PLI, synthesis and modelingtechniques." -MichaelMcNamara, Chair, IEEE 1364-2001 Verilog Standards Organization Thishas been my favorite Verilog book since I picked it up in college. It is theonly book that covers practical Verilog. A must have for beginners andexperts." -BerendOzceri, Design Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc. "Simple,logical and well-organized material with plenty of illustrations, makes this anideal textbook." -Arun K. Somani, Jerry R. Junkins Chair Professor,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames PRENTICE HALL Professional Technical Reference Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 www.phptr.com ISBN: 0-13-044911-3

Book SystemVerilog For Design

Download or read book SystemVerilog For Design written by Stuart Sutherland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SystemVerilog is a rich set of extensions to the IEEE 1364-2001 Verilog Hardware Description Language (Verilog HDL). These extensions address two major aspects of HDL based design. First, modeling very large designs with concise, accurate, and intuitive code. Second, writing high-level test programs to efficiently and effectively verify these large designs. This book, SystemVerilog for Design, addresses the first aspect of the SystemVerilog extensions to Verilog. Important modeling features are presented, such as two-state data types, enumerated types, user-defined types, structures, unions, and interfaces. Emphasis is placed on the proper usage of these enhancements for simulation and synthesis. A companion to this book, SystemVerilog for Verification, covers the second aspect of SystemVerilog.

Book The Verilog   Hardware Description Language

Download or read book The Verilog Hardware Description Language written by Donald E. Thomas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: •• XVII Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 Verilog - A Tutorial Introduction 1 Getting Started 2 A Structural Description 2 Simulating the NAND Latch 4 Module Hleral'Chy 6 The Counter 7 Components of the Counter 9 A Clock for the System 10 Tying the Whole Circuit Together 11 Using An Alternate Description of the Flip Flop 13 Behavioral Modeling 1 S A Behavioral Model of the m16 Counter 16 Mixing Structure and Behavior 18 Assignment Statements 22 Summary on Mixing Behavioral and Structural Descriptions 23 Creating a Testbench For a Module 24 Summary 2S Tutorial Guide to Formal Syntax Specification 26 Exercises 30 CHAPTER 2 Behavioral Modeling 33 Process Model 33 If-Then-Else 3S Where Does The ELSE Belong? 39 The Conditional Operator 41 Loops 41 Four Basic Loop Statements 42 Exiting Loops on Exceptional Conditions 45 Multi-way branching 46 If-Else-If 46 Case 46 Comparison of Case and If-Else-If 48 viii The Verilog Hardware Description Language Casez and Casex 49 Functions and Tasks SO Tasks 52 Functions 55 A Structural View 57 Rules of Scope and Hierarchical Names S9 Rules of Scope 60 Hierarchical Names 62 Summary 63 Exerdses 63 CHAPTER 3 Concurrent Processes 6S Concu"ent Processes 6S Events 67 Event Control Statement 67 Named Events 69 The Walt Statement 72 A Complete Producer-Consumer Handshake 74 Comparison of the Wait and While Statements 77 Comparison of Wait and Event Control Statements 78 A Concu"ent Process Example 78 Disabling Named Blocks 84 Intra-Assignment Control and Timing Events 87 Procedural Continuous Assignment 90

Book Rtl Modeling With Systemverilog for Simulation and Synthesis

Download or read book Rtl Modeling With Systemverilog for Simulation and Synthesis written by Stuart Sutherland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both a tutorial and a reference for engineers who use the SystemVerilog Hardware Description Language (HDL) to design ASICs and FPGAs. The book shows how to write SystemVerilog models at the Register Transfer Level (RTL) that simulate and synthesize correctly, with a focus on proper coding styles and best practices. SystemVerilog is the latest generation of the original Verilog language, and adds many important capabilities to efficiently and more accurately model increasingly complex designs. This book reflects the SystemVerilog-2012/2017 standards. This book is for engineers who already know, or who are learning, digital design engineering. The book does not present digital design theory; it shows how to apply that theory to write RTL models that simulate and synthesize correctly. The creator of the original Verilog Language, Phil Moorby says about this book (an excerpt from the book's Foreword): "Many published textbooks on the design side of SystemVerilog assume that the reader is familiar with Verilog, and simply explain the new extensions. It is time to leave behind the stepping-stones and to teach a single consistent and concise language in a single book, and maybe not even refer to the old ways at all! If you are a designer of digital systems, or a verification engineer searching for bugs in these designs, then SystemVerilog will provide you with significant benefits, and this book is a great place to learn the design aspects of SystemVerilog."

Book Design Recipes for FPGAs  Using Verilog and VHDL

Download or read book Design Recipes for FPGAs Using Verilog and VHDL written by Peter Wilson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design Recipes for FPGAs: Using Verilog and VHDL provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, the book gives 'easy-to-find' design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code. Written in an informal and 'easy-to-grasp' style, it goes beyond the principles of FPGA s and hardware description languages to actually demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized, simulated and downloaded onto an FPGA. This book's 'easy-to-find' structure begins with a design application to demonstrate the key building blocks of FPGA design and how to connect them, enabling the experienced FPGA designer to quickly select the right design for their application, while providing the less experienced a 'road map' to solving their specific design problem. The book also provides advanced techniques to create 'real world' designs that fit the device required and which are fast and reliable to implement. This text will appeal to FPGA designers of all levels of experience. It is also an ideal resource for embedded system development engineers, hardware and software engineers, and undergraduates and postgraduates studying an embedded system which focuses on FPGA design. - A rich toolbox of practical FGPA design techniques at an engineer's finger tips - Easy-to-find structure that allows the engineer to quickly locate the information to solve their FGPA design problem, and obtain the level of detail and understanding needed

Book FPGA Prototyping by Verilog Examples

Download or read book FPGA Prototyping by Verilog Examples written by Pong P. Chu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FPGA Prototyping Using Verilog Examples will provide you with a hands-on introduction to Verilog synthesis and FPGA programming through a “learn by doing” approach. By following the clear, easy-to-understand templates for code development and the numerous practical examples, you can quickly develop and simulate a sophisticated digital circuit, realize it on a prototyping device, and verify the operation of its physical implementation. This introductory text that will provide you with a solid foundation, instill confidence with rigorous examples for complex systems and prepare you for future development tasks.

Book Principles of Verifiable RTL Design

Download or read book Principles of Verifiable RTL Design written by Lionel Bening and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Principles of Verifiable RTL Design offered a common sense method for simplifying and unifying assertion specification by creating a set of predefined specification modules that could be instantiated within the designer's RTL. Since the release of the first edition, an entire industry-wide initiative for assertion specification has emerged based on ideas presented in the first edition. This initiative, known as the Open Verification Library Initiative (www.verificationlib.org), provides an assertion interface standard that enables the design engineer to capture many interesting properties of the design and precludes the need to introduce new HDL constructs (i.e., extensions to Verilog are not required). Furthermore, this standard enables the design engineer to `specify once,' then target the same RTL assertion specification over multiple verification processes, such as traditional simulation, semi-formal and formal verification tools. The Open Verification Library Initiative is an empowering technology that will benefit design and verification engineers while providing unity to the EDA community (e.g., providers of testbench generation tools, traditional simulators, commercial assertion checking support tools, symbolic simulation, and semi-formal and formal verification tools). The second edition of Principles of Verifiable RTL Design expands the discussion of assertion specification by including a new chapter entitled `Coverage, Events and Assertions'. All assertions exampled are aligned with the Open Verification Library Initiative proposed standard. Furthermore, the second edition provides expanded discussions on the following topics: start-up verification; the place for 4-state simulation; race conditions; RTL-style-synthesizable RTL (unambiguous mapping to gates); more `bad stuff'. The goal of the second edition is to keep the topic current. Principles of Verifiable RTL Design, A Functional Coding Style Supporting Verification Processes, Second Edition tells you how you can write Verilog to describe chip designs at the RTL level in a manner that cooperates with verification processes. This cooperation can return an order of magnitude improvement in performance and capacity from tools such as simulation and equivalence checkers. It reduces the labor costs of coverage and formal model checking by facilitating communication between the design engineer and the verification engineer. It also orients the RTL style to provide more useful results from the overall verification process.

Book Hardware Description Language Demystified

Download or read book Hardware Description Language Demystified written by Dr. Cherry Sarma Bhargava, Dr. Rajkumar and published by BPB Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get familiar and work with the basic and advanced Modeling types in Verilog HDL Key Features a- Learn about the step-wise process to use Verilog design tools such as Xilinx, Vivado, Cadence NC-SIM a- Explore the various types of HDL and its need a- Learn Verilog HDL modeling types using examples a- Learn advanced concept such as UDP, Switch level modeling a- Learn about FPGA based prototyping of the digital system Description Hardware Description Language (HDL) allows analysis and simulation of digital logic and circuits. The HDL is an integral part of the EDA (electronic design automation) tool for PLDs, microprocessors, and ASICs. So, HDL is used to describe a Digital System. The combinational and sequential logic circuits can be described easily using HDL. Verilog HDL, standardized as IEEE 1364, is a hardware description language used to model electronic systems. This book is a comprehensive guide about the digital system and its design using various VLSI design tools as well as Verilog HDL. The step-wise procedure to use various VLSI tools such as Xilinx, Vivado, Cadence NC-SIM, is covered in this book. It also explains the advanced concept such as User Define Primitives (UDP), switch level modeling, reconfigurable computing, etc. Finally, this book ends with FPGA based prototyping of the digital system. By the end of this book, you will understand everything related to digital system design. What will you learn a- Implement Adder, Subtractor, Adder-Cum-Subtractor using Verilog HDL a- Explore the various Modeling styles in Verilog HDL a- Implement Switch level modeling using Verilog HDL a- Get familiar with advanced modeling techniques in Verilog HDL a- Get to know more about FPGA based prototyping using Verilog HDL Who this book is for Anyone interested in Electronics and VLSI design and want to learn Digital System Design with Verilog HDL will find this book useful. IC developers can also use this book as a quick reference for Verilog HDL fundamentals & features. Table of Contents 1. An Introduction to VLSI Design Tools 2. Need of Hardware Description Language (HDL) 3. Logic Gate Implementation in Verilog HDL 4. Adder-Subtractor Implementation Using Verilog HDL 5. Multiplexer/Demultiplexer Implementation in Verilog HDL 6. Encoder/Decoder Implementation Using Verilog HDL 7. Magnitude Comparator Implementation Using Verilog HDL 8. Flip-Flop Implementation Using Verilog HDL 9. Shift Registers Implementation Using Verilog HDL 10. Counter Implementation Using Verilog HDL 11. Shift Register Counter Implementation Using Verilog HDL 12. Advanced Modeling Techniques 13. Switch Level Modeling 14. FPGA Prototyping in Verilog HDL About the Author Dr. Cherry Bhargava is working as an associate professor and head, VLSI domain, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. She has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience. She is Ph.D. (ECE), IKGPTU, M.Tech (VLSI Design & CAD) Thapar University and B.Tech (Electronics and Instrumentation) from Kurukshetra University. She is GATE qualified with All India Rank 428. She has authored about 50 technical research papers in SCI, Scopus indexed quality journals, and national/international conferences. She has eleven books related to reliability, artificial intelligence, and digital electronics to her credit. She has registered five copyrights and filed twenty-two patents. Your LinkedIn Profile https://in.linkedin.com/in/dr-cherry-bhargava-7315619 Dr. Rajkumar Sarma received his B.E. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Vinayaka Mission's University, Salem, India & M.Tech degree from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab and currently pursuing Ph.D. from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab. Your LinkedIn Profile www.linkedin.com/in/rajkumar-sarma-213657126

Book The Complete Verilog Book

Download or read book The Complete Verilog Book written by Vivek Sagdeo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Verilog hardware description language (HDL) provides the ability to describe digital and analog systems. This ability spans the range from descriptions that express conceptual and architectural design to detailed descriptions of implementations in gates and transistors. Verilog was developed originally at Gateway Design Automation Corporation during the mid-eighties. Tools to verify designs expressed in Verilog were implemented at the same time and marketed. Now Verilog is an open standard of IEEE with the number 1364. Verilog HDL is now used universally for digital designs in ASIC, FPGA, microprocessor, DSP and many other kinds of design-centers and is supported by most of the EDA companies. The research and education that is conducted in many universities is also using Verilog. This book introduces the Verilog hardware description language and describes it in a comprehensive manner. Verilog HDL was originally developed and specified with the intent of use with a simulator. Semantics of the language had not been fully described until now. In this book, each feature of the language is described using semantic introduction, syntax and examples. Chapter 4 leads to the full semantics of the language by providing definitions of terms, and explaining data structures and algorithms. The book is written with the approach that Verilog is not only a simulation or synthesis language, or a formal method of describing design, but a complete language addressing all of these aspects. This book covers many aspects of Verilog HDL that are essential parts of any design process.

Book Microprocessor Design Using Verilog HDL

Download or read book Microprocessor Design Using Verilog HDL written by Monte Dalrymple and published by Elektor Electronics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have the right tools, designing a microprocessor shouldnt be complicated. The Verilog hardware description language (HDL) is one such tool. It can enable you to depict, simulate, and synthesise an electronic design, and thus increase your productivity by reducing the overall workload associated with a given project. Monte Dalrymples Microprocessor Design Using Verilog HDL is a practical guide to processor design in the real world. It presents the Verilog HDL in an easily digestible fashion and serves as a thorough introduction about reducing a computer architecture and instruction set to practice. Youre led through the microprocessor design process from start to finish, and essential topics ranging from writing in Verilog to debugging and testing are laid bare. The book details the following, and more: Verilog HDL Review: data types, bit widths/labelling, operations, statements, and design hierarchy; Verilog Coding Style: files vs. modules, indentation, and design organisation; Design Work: instruction set architecture, external bus interface, and machine cycle; Microarchitecture: design spreadsheet and essential worksheets (eg: Operation, Instruction Code, and Next State); Writing in Verilog: choosing encoding, assigning states in a state machine, and files (eg: defines.v, hierarchy.v, machine.v); Debugging, Verification, and Testing: debugging requirements, verification requirements, testing requirements, and the test bench; Post Simulation: enhancements and reduction to practice.

Book The e Hardware Verification Language

Download or read book The e Hardware Verification Language written by Sasan Iman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am glad to see this new book on the e language and on verification. I am especially glad to see a description of the e Reuse Methodology (eRM). The main goal of verification is, after all, finding more bugs quicker using given resources, and verification reuse (module-to-system, old-system-to-new-system etc. ) is a key enabling component. This book offers a fresh approach in teaching the e hardware verification language within the context of coverage driven verification methodology. I hope it will help the reader und- stand the many important and interesting topics surrounding hardware verification. Yoav Hollander Founder and CTO, Verisity Inc. Preface This book provides a detailed coverage of the e hardware verification language (HVL), state of the art verification methodologies, and the use of e HVL as a facilitating verification tool in implementing a state of the art verification environment. It includes comprehensive descriptions of the new concepts introduced by the e language, e language syntax, and its as- ciated semantics. This book also describes the architectural views and requirements of verifi- tion environments (randomly generated environments, coverage driven verification environments, etc. ), verification blocks in the architectural views (i. e. generators, initiators, c- lectors, checkers, monitors, coverage definitions, etc. ) and their implementations using the e HVL. Moreover, the e Reuse Methodology (eRM), the motivation for defining such a gui- line, and step-by-step instructions for building an eRM compliant e Verification Component (eVC) are also discussed.

Book Verilog Styles for Synthesis of Digital Systems

Download or read book Verilog Styles for Synthesis of Digital Systems written by David Richard Smith and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed specifically to make the cutting-edge techniques of digital hardware design more accessible to those just entering the field. The text uses a simpler language (Verilog) and standardizes the methodology to the point where even novices can get medium complex designs through to gate-level simulation in a short period of time. Requires a working knowledge of computer organization, Unix, and X windows. Some knowledge of a programming language such as C or Java is desirable, but not necessary. Features a large number of worked examples and problems--from 100 to 100k gate equivalents--all synthesized and successfully verified by simulation at gate level using the VCS compiled simulator, the FPGA Compiler and Behavioral Compiler available from Synopsys, and the FPGA tool suites from Altera and Xilinx. Basic Language Constructs. Structural and Behavioral Specification. Simulation. Procedural Specification. Design Approaches for Single Modules. Validation of Single Modules. Finite State Machine Styles. Control-Point Writing Style. Managing Complexity--Large Designs. Improving Timing, Area, and Power. Design Compiler. Synthesis to Standard Cells. Synthesis to FPGA. Gate Level Simulation and Testing. Alternative Writing Styles. Mixed Technology Design. For anyone wanting an accessible, accelerated introduction to the cutting-edge tools for Digital Hardware Design.

Book SystemVerilog for Verification

Download or read book SystemVerilog for Verification written by Chris Spear and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the highly successful second edition, this extended edition of SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features teaches all verification features of the SystemVerilog language, providing hundreds of examples to clearly explain the concepts and basic fundamentals. It contains materials for both the full-time verification engineer and the student learning this valuable skill. In the third edition, authors Chris Spear and Greg Tumbush start with how to verify a design, and then use that context to demonstrate the language features, including the advantages and disadvantages of different styles, allowing readers to choose between alternatives. This textbook contains end-of-chapter exercises designed to enhance students’ understanding of the material. Other features of this revision include: New sections on static variables, print specifiers, and DPI from the 2009 IEEE language standard Descriptions of UVM features such as factories, the test registry, and the configuration database Expanded code samples and explanations Numerous samples that have been tested on the major SystemVerilog simulators SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features, Third Edition is suitable for use in a one-semester SystemVerilog course on SystemVerilog at the undergraduate or graduate level. Many of the improvements to this new edition were compiled through feedback provided from hundreds of readers.

Book Logic Design and Verification Using SystemVerilog  Revised

Download or read book Logic Design and Verification Using SystemVerilog Revised written by Donald Thomas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SystemVerilog is a Hardware Description Language that enables designers to work at the higher levels of logic design abstractions that match the increased complexity of current day integrated circuit and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) designs. The majority of the book assumes a basic background in logic design and software programming concepts. It is directed at: * students currently in an introductory logic design course that also teaches SystemVerilog, * designers who want to update their skills from Verilog or VHDL, and * students in VLSI design and advanced logic design courses that include verification as well as design topics. The book starts with a tutorial introduction on hardware description languages and simulation. It proceeds to the register-transfer design topics of combinational and finite state machine (FSM) design - these mirror the topics of introductory logic design courses. The book covers the design of FSM-datapath designs and their interfaces, including SystemVerilog interfaces. Then it covers the more advanced topics of writing testbenches including using assertions and functional coverage. A comprehensive index provides easy access to the book's topics.The goal of the book is to introduce the broad spectrum of features in the language in a way that complements introductory and advanced logic design and verification courses, and then provides a basis for further learning.Solutions to problems at the end of chapters, and text copies of the SystemVerilog examples are available from the author as described in the Preface.