"Thomas A. Panfil" wrote: > > The latest set of publication order post cards from IEEE included an > interesting one on an August 1999 book by Dr. Sumit Ghosh entitled: > "Hardware Description Languages: Concepts and Principles." > > In addition to the origin and evolution of HDLs, it includes a > treatment of the *subject* of this message. Member price is $68.00. > > I've been interested in VHDL, and the work of Dr. Wong and > Dr. Levine on "Kernel Ada to Unify Hardware and Software Design", > and it would seem that this book may support their ideas. > > Its table of contents seems to indicate that 20 of its 276 > (maybe 239 or 400) pages are devoted to the Ada design. See: it's $79.95 at fatbrain. And 10 of those 20 pages, under the heading "Hierarchical Representation and Dynamic Multi-Level Simulation", seem to be about "zooming". What is "zooming", and what is "Dynamic Multi-Level Simulation"? I'm not about to spend US$80 (that's A$120) on 20 pages, even though this is an area of immediate interest to me. I have done some high level modelling of hardware with Ada and found it more suited to this application than C, Java etc - much less error prone bit bashing. Cheers Geoff