Which to learn: Verilog vs. VHDL?
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From: Michael on 14 Apr 2008 09:18 Howdy - I'm just beginning with FPGAs. I am using a Spartan 3E Starter Kit with Xilinx ISE. I am an electrical engineer by training and did some verilog in my collegiate days - but that was quite some time ago and it is all very fuzzy now. I have decided that as an EE I should be familiar with FPGAs - so I'm re-educating myself. With that said - which would be more useful to learn in the industrial world: Verilog or VHDL? Thanks! -Michael
From: Mike Treseler on 14 Apr 2008 10:58 Michael wrote: > which would be more useful to learn in the industrial world: Verilog > or VHDL? Better learn both. This has been well covered: http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=vhdl+vs+verilog -- Mike Treseler
From: RCIngham on 15 Apr 2008 06:17 >which would be more useful to learn in the industrial world: Verilog >or VHDL? In Europe (including UK) VHDL is more commonly used. In USA Verilog is prevalent. However, SystemVerilog is gradually gaining ground everywhere, and Verilog-2001 is a subset of SV. It is probably very difficult to learn both simultaneously...
From: Kevin Neilson on 15 Apr 2008 12:13 Michael wrote: > Howdy - I'm just beginning with FPGAs. I am using a Spartan 3E Starter > Kit with Xilinx ISE. I am an electrical engineer by training and did > some verilog in my collegiate days - but that was quite some time ago > and it is all very fuzzy now. I have decided that as an EE I should be > familiar with FPGAs - so I'm re-educating myself. With that said - > which would be more useful to learn in the industrial world: Verilog > or VHDL? > > Thanks! > > -Michael Verilog is better, but VHDL is used more in FPGAs. SystemVerilog (a Verilog superset) is the future, but in the FPGA world, the future is often further away than you'd think. (Verilog-2001 features are still lacking in some tools.) The far future is sequential C-to-gates. Teach that to your grandchildren. -Kevin
From: Fei Liu on 15 Apr 2008 14:15
Michael wrote: > Howdy - I'm just beginning with FPGAs. I am using a Spartan 3E Starter > Kit with Xilinx ISE. I am an electrical engineer by training and did > some verilog in my collegiate days - but that was quite some time ago > and it is all very fuzzy now. I have decided that as an EE I should be > familiar with FPGAs - so I'm re-educating myself. With that said - > which would be more useful to learn in the industrial world: Verilog > or VHDL? > > Thanks! > > -Michael I personally found verilog very intuitive with my software engineering background. VHDL on the other hand seems weird to me. YMMY. Fei |