Tutorials

This page contains information and links to the tutorials included on this CD.

Contents:

• SPIM Tutorial
• VHDL Tutorial
• Verilog Tutorial

SPIM Tutorial

The following tutorials describe the various versions of SPIM. Click here for instructions on installing the software.

• Getting Started with xspim
• Getting Started with PCSpim
• Getting Started with spim
• SPIM Command-Line Options

VHDL Tutorial

This tutorial introduces the basic language features that are needed to get started in modeling relatively simple digital systems. It does not comprehensively review the language. For a full coverage, the reader is referred to The Designer’s Guide to VHDL, 2nd Edition, by Peter J. Ashenden, published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (ISBN 1-55860-674-2).

• This CD contains a simple processor model written in VHDL. You may find it useful to examine this model in conjuction with the tutorial.
• This CD also contains labs involving construction of a processor model in VHDL.

Verilog Tutorial

This is a self-study course for learning the Verilog Hardware Description Language. There are nine chapters in the course, and each chapter has a number of topics and subsections that you visit by moving around in hypertext.

This tutorial was written by John Sanguinetti. The web-based version includes searching features, and a test to help you evaluate your learning.