Exploring Zynq MPSoc – free book

This book introduces the Zynq® MPSoC (Multi-Processor System-on-Chip), an embedded device from Xilinx® that combines a processing system that includes Arm® Cortex®-A53 application and Arm Cortex-R5 real-time processors, alongside FPGA programmable logic.
The book covers the architecture of the device, the design tools and methods, conventional hardware/software co-design approach, and the newer software-defined methodology, as well as hardware and software development, multiprocessing, safety, security and platform management, system booting, and special features on PYNQ (a Python-based framework) and machine learning applications.
This book should serve as a useful guide for those getting starting with, and the working with Zynq MPSoC, and equally as a reference for technical managers wishing to gain familiarity with the device and its associated design methodologies.

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Prototypical – FPGA prototyping free book

Making FPGA prototyping part of the design process early means actually thinking about how the design will be prototyped via an FPGA

In Prototypical – The Emergence of FPGA prototyping for SoC Design book, the authors tell the history of FPGA-based prototyping and three leading system providers – S2C, Cadence, and Synopsys.

First, the book describes how the need for co-verification evolved with chip complexity, where FPGAs got their start in verification, and why ASIC design benefits from prototyping technology.

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Parallel Programming for FPGAs

Parallel Programming for FPGAs is an open-source book aimed at teaching hardware and software developers how to efficiently program FPGAs using high-level synthesis (HLS). The authors developed the book as we noticed a lack of material aimed at teaching people to effectively use HLS tools.
The book was developed over many years to serve as a primary reference for UCSD 237C — a hardware design class targeting first-year graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. We hope that you find it useful for learning more about HLS, FPGAs, and system-on-chip design.

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Free Range VHDL – free book

The purpose of this book is to provide students and young engineers with a guide to help them develop the skills necessary to be able to use VHDL for introductory and intermediate level digital design

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FreeRange – Logic/Verilog free books & courses

Free Range’s author James Mealy has a long trajectory in the free diffusion of logic design.

On this site, you can find free books (Logic foundation and Verilog), selected chapters of the course on video, and solutions to the course’s lab exercises.

From the author page :

I started collecting digital design textbooks after arriving at Cal Poly; I was sure that writing books meant having all the books possible on the subject and arranging the information differently. What I found was that I simply didn’t like the approach taken in every digital design textbook I’ve ever read. This led me to take a different approach, which I’ve done in the FreeRange series of courseware. I put more comments regarding the approach on a different page and in the actual textbooks as well.

Free Range – Digital Design and Verilog Modeling

You may also want to check: Free Range VHDL (free book)

Introduction to Verilog

The motto of this blog is “FPGA projects in VHDL”. It also includes free VHDL books. But, in a past comment on Hacker News, I saw this nice Verilog short guide and I knew I have to share it here.

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High Speed Serial I/O – free book

This book was published by Xilinx in 2005. While in our very dynamic profession, some of the technologies explained can be a bit outdated, the basic concepts are there for anyone who wishes to learn or refresh his/her concepts about high-speed serial links.

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The Zynq book – free pdf

The Zynq Book is dedicated to the Xilinx Zynq-7000 System on Chip (SoC) from Xilinx.

The Zynq Book is the first book about Zynq to be written in the English language. It has been produced by a team of authors from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, with the support of Xilinx. The book is intended for people just starting out with Zynq, and engineers already working with Zynq.

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FPGA for dummies – free book

f you are completely new to FPGAs, or if you want a refreshingly high-level view of what FPGAs are and what are the future trends in the field, you can download this free book from the Intel PSG site:

FPGA for dummies

The book is an all-text introduction to this exciting field, do not expect to find real examples nor VHDL code in the book.