Behavioral Synthesis

A book/disk package describing a behavioral synthesis product, detailing behavioral design flow and behavioral synthesis processes, and showing how to write HDL descriptions, manage I/O timing, and interpret error messages. Offers case studies representing design problems concerning IIR and FIR filters, video compression and translation from C to HDL, and data encryption. The accompanying disk requires the Synopsis Behavioral Compiler to synthesize. For working engineers, engineering managers, and advanced students. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

David Knapp was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he taught courses in Microprocessor Systems, Embedded Systems, and Design Automation.