Can someone please recommend a good book to start learning vhdl from. I
borrow a book from a friend and it's a 1990 issue. There's got to be
something more recent out there. I appreciate the help. Thanks.

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The year when VHDL became a standard was 1987. Even if there was a new release
in 1992, a book from 1990 contains still the most part of the language.
Anyway, I list you some books:

[1] Chip-Level Modelling with VHDL  
    James R. Amstrong      
    1989 Prentice Hall

[2] A Guide to VHDL                
    S. Mazor/P. Langstraat  
    1993 KAP

[3] Schaltungsdesign mit VHDL      
    Lehmann/Wunder/Selz    
    1994 Franzis'

[4] VHDL '92                        
    Berge/Fonkoua/Maginot/Rouillard
    1993 KAP

[5] VHDL                            
    Douglas L. Perry        
    1991 Mc Graw-Hill

[6] Structured logic design with VHDL      
    J. Amstrong/ F. Gail Gray      
    1993 Prentice Hall

[7] Circuit Synthesis with VHDL    
    Airiau/Berge/Olive      
    1994 KAP

[8] ASIC System design with VHDL    
    Leung/Shanblatt        
    1989 KAP

[9] Applications of VHDL to Circuit Design  
    Harr/Stanculescu        
    1991 KAP

[10]Digital System Design using VHDL        
    Chin-Hwa Lee    
    1992 Corral Tek

[11]A VHDL Primer
    J. Bhasker
    AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Prentice Hall
    (ISBN 0-13-181447-8)

[12]A VHDL Synthesis Primer
    J. Bhasker
    AT&T Bell Laboratories
    (ISBN 0-9650391-0-2)

[13]Hardware Description and Design
    Lipset/Schaefer/Ussery
    1990 KAP
    (ISBN 0-7923-9030-x)

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For VHDL you could try:
        "VHDL: techniques, experiments, and caveats"
        Joseph Pick
        Publ. McGraw Hill, 1995
        ISBN 0-07-049906-3

For synthesis of VHDL try:
        A VHDL synthesis primer
        J. Bhasker
        Publ. Star Galaxy Publishing, 1996
        ISBN 0-9650391-0-2
        NOTE: this book has a brief introduction to VHDL
              it focus on synthesis aspects of VHDL

But remember .. there are more nice books!

Egbert Molenkamp
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Twente
PO Box 217
7500 AE  Enschede
the Netherlands

Take a look at my book  "VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies",
ISBN 0-7923-9598-0  Kluwer Academic Publishers.  It provides lots of
examples available on disk.  It also emphasizes the design of testbenches
(in chapter 10), and provides a complete susbsytem model using a simple
UART, CPU BFMs driving the UART, a transmission line with jitter, and a
verifier
to detect any errors in the transmision.

The table of contents foor the book is in my FTP site:  
 users.aol.com       /vhdlcohen/vhdl
Ben Cohen
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