Other Sources of Documentation

As mentioned previously, this manual provides brief explanations of the entire process. For detailed help on individual tools, the reader should refer to the help menus associated with these tools. Furthermore, both Xilinx and Synopsys maintain a very helpful WWW database of commonly asked questions, design considerations, VHDL issues, device descriptions, and much more. Please take advantage of these resources as they are updated regularly and contain information that tremendously help both of us during our projects. In addition, there are few manuals in the Crypto lab that may be of help. These manuals are available on WWW, but we printed them because we felt that they were quite important. These are Xilinx Synopsys Interface FPGA User Guide and HDL Synthesis for FPGAs. Finally, the Synopsys On-line Documentation (SOLD) is probably the most robust reference along with the Xilinx DynaText Help.