How to add usercontrol in sharepoint 2013 master page.

HI friends,

  Can you please help me to add the user control to SharePoint 2013 master page  .Please give me the links which shows step by step to achieve this.I am using visual studio 2012 .In the user control I need to place the banner image and another menu image with few buttons which navigates to the SharePoint pages.Please help me to do this.

Thanks