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

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 16:48:39 02/18/04

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On February 18, 2004 at 19:43:13, Keith Evans wrote:

>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

I learned a lot off the web.  There are tons of colleges that put their
'homework' and 'project' stuff on the internet (most of them are EE classes).

I'd say I learned about 75% from there.  The rest from the Verilog handbook,
mailing lists, examples with programs, Marc B., and of course, Keith Evans,
himself.  :)



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