{"product_id":"foundations-of-electronic-design-automation-volume-two-from-physics-to-implementation-9798176323733","title":"Foundations of Electronic Design Automation Volume Two: From Physics to Implementation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gareth Thomas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Microprocessors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGetting RTL to compile is easy. Getting a design through verification, synthesis, timing closure, physical implementation and signoff is where electronic design becomes engineering.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFoundations of Electronic Design Automation: From Physics to Implementation - Volume 2\u003c\/b\u003e moves directly into that territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume begins with the languages, models and verification systems used to express complex hardware-and follows those representations all the way through synthesis, timing analysis, physical design and the modern automated EDA workflow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe objective is not to teach isolated commands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is to show how an electronic design becomes trustworthy silicon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will work through VHDL and the IEEE 1076 model of strongly typed concurrent hardware description, then move into GHDL and open-source simulation and synthesis workflows. Property Specification Language introduces temporal properties and assertion-based verification. SystemC extends the design space into transaction-level modelling, executable architecture and high-level synthesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom there, the book moves deeper into the machinery of EDA itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC++ is examined as a language for hardware models, simulation infrastructure and high-performance design tools. Chisel, FIRRTL and Clash demonstrate how modern programming-language concepts can generate and transform hardware while maintaining structural and type-level guarantees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the focus shifts from describing hardware to \u003cb\u003eturning it into an implementation that can actually close.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 2 covers: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- VHDL design, synthesis and testbench methodology\u003cbr\u003e- GHDL simulation and GHDL-Yosys workflows\u003cbr\u003e- PSL temporal logic and formal properties\u003cbr\u003e- SystemC and transaction-level modelling\u003cbr\u003e- Modern C++ for EDA engineering\u003cbr\u003e- Verilator and HDL\/software integration\u003cbr\u003e- Chisel, FIRRTL and hardware generation\u003cbr\u003e- Clash and type-driven hardware design\u003cbr\u003e- Boolean optimisation and logic synthesis\u003cbr\u003e- Technology mapping and FPGA synthesis\u003cbr\u003e- Static timing analysis\u003cbr\u003e- Setup, hold, delay modelling and timing constraints\u003cbr\u003e- Multi-mode multi-corner timing closure\u003cbr\u003e- Functional, assertion-based and formal verification\u003cbr\u003e- Hardware\/software co-verification\u003cbr\u003e- Floorplanning and placement\u003cbr\u003e- Clock-tree synthesis and routing\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery EDA stage is a transformation-and every transformation can lose information, introduce assumptions or hide a failure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA clean simulation does not prove synthesizability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA synthesized netlist does not prove timing closure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTiming closure does not prove manufacturability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd an AI-generated design that looks convincing does not prove anything until it has passed the same verification discipline demanded of human-written hardware.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 2 therefore concentrates on the evidence required at each stage: assertions, coverage, equivalence, constraints, timing reports, extracted parasitics, design-rule checks, reproducible automation and final signoff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will learn not merely how to operate an EDA flow, but how to interrogate it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat changed? What assumption was introduced? What constraint governs the result? What evidence proves that the implementation still satisfies the original intent?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose questions separate tool users from engineers capable of diagnosing failures across an entire chip-design flow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers working in digital design, FPGA development, ASIC engineering, verification, physical design, EDA software or AI-assisted semiconductor design, \u003cb\u003eVolume 2 takes the journey from hardware representation to implementation, verification and signoff.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause ultimately, silicon does not care whether the RTL looked elegant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt either works-or it does not.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68016495493271,"sku":"9798176323733","price":2937.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798176323733.webp?v=1791402510","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/foundations-of-electronic-design-automation-volume-two-from-physics-to-implementation-9798176323733","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}