This VHDL manual is based on the older IEEE Standard 1076-1987. The reason is that most of today´s design tools support this standard only and not the newer 1993 one.
The first part of the manual (Chapter 2) allows to cover the basics of VHDL in a very short time. This knowledge should be sufficient to describe simple digital circuits. The topics serve as a reference material for the introductory course (Design of Integrated Circuits with VHDL) lectures.
The second part, starting with Chapter 3, is based
on the VHDL manual of the Group TECH, Department of Computer Science,
University of Hamburg. It serves as a supporting documentation to the
first part. The original version, written in German, and a lot of
other useful information along with VHDL links can be found in the WWW
under the following URLs:
http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/Dokumentation
http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl/vhdl.html