Table of Contents

1 VLSI TECHNOLOGY: HISTORY, FEATURES AND FPGA ARCHITECTURE. 2 DIGITAL CIRCUIT DESIGN WITH VHDL. 3 SIMPLE SYSTEM DESIGN TECHNIQUES. 4 ARITHMETIC AND LOGICAL PROGRAMMING. 5 I/O BANK PROGRAMMING AND INTERFACING. 6 SYSTEM DESIGN WITH FINITE AND ALGORITHMIC STATE MACHINE APPROACHES. 7 INTERFACING DIGITAL LOGIC TO THE REAL WORLD: SENSORS, A/D AND D/A. 8 RTC AND INTERFACE PROTOCOL PROGRAMMING. 9 REAL-WORLD CONTROL DEVICES INTERFACING. 10 FLOATING-POINT COMPUTATIONS WITH VHDL AND XILINX SYSTEM GENERATOR (SYS-GEN) TOOLS. 11 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING WITH FPGA. 12 ADVANCED IP BASED SYSTEM DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS. 13 CONTEMPORARY DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS.

About the Author

A. Arockia Bazil Raj received his B.E degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India, his M.E degree in Communication Systems and his Ph.D degree in Information and Communication Technology from the Anna University, Chennai, India. His Ph.D research on Free Space Optical Communication was fully funded by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), New Delhi, India, under the ER&IPR project. He has delivered several invited talks and headed national/international conferences’ sessions. He has authored several papers published in reputed international journals and conferences. He published four books that are designed based on his teaching and research experience. He is a Reviewer in various journals of IEEE, Springer, OSA, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, SAGE and Elsevier etc., He is a Member of ISTE, IEEE, IET and SPIE. He was an Assistant Professor in the Kings College of Engineering, Thanjavur, India from 2002 to 2006. He has been Associate Professor in the Research, Development and Establishment (RDE) section of the Laser Communication Laboratory (LCL) facility in the same institute from 2007 to October 2015. Presently, he is working in the field of Radar System Design and Radar Signal Processing in Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, India from November 2015 onwards. He has successfully completed/investigated various research projects sponsored by government and non-government sectors/laboratories. His current research interests cover the free-space optical communication, Radar System Design, Photonics Radar Design, MIMO Radar Design and Radar signal processing.