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Subject: Re: For Bob Durett -- free information about how VHDL works

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 16:43:13 02/18/04

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On February 18, 2004 at 16:44:50, Slater Wold wrote:

>On February 18, 2004 at 16:41:01, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl/
>>
>>This looks like a good start:
>>http://www.eda.org/comp.lang.vhdl/
>
>As Keith would say, "JUST SAY NO TO VHDL".
>
>Verilog is the only way to go...

There are a lot of people who like VHDL. Out here in California my perception is
that most people prefer Verilog. If you're learning an HDL from scratch then I
believe you'll have an easier time with Verilog.

But the first thing to do is to learn about hardware design. And you don't need
either Verilog or VHDL to understand the concepts. (There are also products like
Celoxica's C-based tools for hardware design, but I wouldn't personally choose
to use them. I think there's even a tool to convert matlab scripts...)

If you want to learn about verification using Verilog/VHDL/... then I recommend
Janick Bergeron's book. I don't know of any great design book - I have seen some
awful ones. In the past I recommended that people study the simple examples
provided with products like Synplicity. If you can design in schematics, then
HDL is easy.

-K



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