Recommend Reading for FPGAs and VHDL?

George Holland asks: "After designing several projects around PLD-based programmable logic, I decided to buy a FPGA development board (the Spartan-IIE based XSA-200) to experiment with something more capable. I'd like to find some good books on VHDL and FPGAs in general, but there are many to choose from. Some are aimed at beginners (I have a solid background in both low and high level programming languages and digital electronics), others gloss over the low-level details of an FPGA (covering RTL only, skipping floor-planning) assuming the tools with synthesize an optimal design with no manual tweaking. Trying to find something that fits in the middle is what I'm after. What books do Slashdot readers suggest? Ideally something that covers the WebPACK toolset from Xilinx or the Spartan-IIE would be best as that's what I'm using."

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Fundamentals of Digital Logic by Brown & Vrane

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Fundamentals of Digital Logic by Brown & Vranesic

Available in both a VHLD and Verilog version for your learning pleasure. Both books ship with a copy of Quartus II from Altera. You can get Altera development kits here if you're looking for something bigger and better than a Spartan-IIe.

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