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well that particular book is Verilog Hdl by Samir Palnitkar,
there are many errors in that book, so one should also refer to the errata of that book,
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actually it was our instructor who initially told us that palnitkar's book is full of errors, so he prescribed us a tutorial which i have uploaded for u
i think you must start with the book "digital design "by Morris Mano.
because it contain all the information at a very basic level .
it will be more easier for you to first understand the digital logic and than convert it into VERILOG..
A couple years ago I read Palnitkar's book to learn Verilog. I don't think it's so great. At the time, I had never seen HDL before, but even while reading the book I sensed that about 90% of it would be utterly useless for my needs. I do communication and signal processing in FPGA using RTL. I could have reduced my learning time from a couple of weeks to a couple of days by concentrating on the essentials: module declaration, wire/reg/input/output/parameter declarations, expression syntax, combinatorial assign statements, always @ (clock) blocks with register assignments, if/case/for blocks, and then fork/join/$display/#time things for test benches. Those are all simple things, if you already know digital design and C expression syntax.
I believe a better way to learn Verilog is to have these three things:
1. One clear complete example that demonstrates all the language's essential features, not scattered over fifteen chapters of a book.
2. A well-indexed detailed language reference guide. The IEEE standard will suffice but needs improvement.
3. A simulator to run experiments.
I do agree with echo47. Let's say that I'm a beginner in the FPGA world and the first advice that I got was to read the famous "Verilog HDL" by Samir Palnitkar. So I did go through it. After I was done with it I realised that it did not get me very far in the process of FPGA design. Verilog is only a syntax and when you are designing an FPGA it is not with Verilog that you are desining it. I agree that you need to know Verilog sytax and Methodologies but it's only 5% of the work for FPGA desing. Mr. Palnitkar's book content can be reduced by more than half and be used as a Verilog syntax reference book, but not as a "Guide to digital design and synthesis" like it says on the cover.
From my experience in FPGA (so far), when somebody says I need to learn Verilog and asks where should I start? My answer would be by a question to him "What is your knowledge in Digital Design?". That's where you need to start.
I know that this debate could go on for ever but Mr. Brafi if you only need some syntax guidance for Verilog go with a good reference Verilog book. But if you are new to the FPGA world start with digital design.
One bad thing I found in Samir palnitkar's book was everytime he explains a concept and some new concept comes in there, he mentions that it will be covered later on and it is there throughout the book. I feel this is not the way to go...
I completely agree with echo47. To learn a language, we don't need learn all aspects of it, we just only need concentrate our energe on some important issues of the language. I think echo47 has mentioned the elite of the verilog language for the ASIC/FPGA engineer. Moreover, I think the best way for a beginner to start maybe be to study the relatively simple IP cores.
i used the book "HDL chip design" by Douglas J smith....... Contains design from approach for FPGA and also cover both VHDL and verilog, since i have to do both, i prefer, bt i suggest it is good if u r going for verilog only aswell.
After all 1 year of teaching from Samir's book, i got addicted!
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