Reading Material

There is no formal textbook for this course. However, the following references will support some of the lecture material.

• High-Speed Digital System Design: A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices, Hall, Hall and McCall, Wiley. Timing Analysis: Chapter 8 is most directly relevant to the lectures. Chapter 9 gets more into setting up spreadsheets to do the computations. (Available online via Books 24x7.com)
• Digital Systems Engineering, Dally and Poulton, Cambridge. Clock Domains and Syncrhonization: Chapter 10. (At Bennett Library)
• Synthesis and Scripting Techniques for Designing Multi-Asynchronous Clock Designs, Clifford E. Cummings, SNUG-2001. (Clock Domains and Synchronization) (pdf)

• Xilinx Virtex II-Pro Datasheets (link)
• Xilinx FSLs: Attaching Hardware to the MicroBlaze (pdf)
• Altera Stratix II Datasheets (link)
• Altera Custom Instructions: NIOS I (pdf)
• Altera Custom Instructions: NIOS II (pdf)