HDL tutorials

HDL languages are nowadays the preferred way to create FPGA designs. The most commonly used HDL languages are Verilog and VHDL. This site showns examples in Verilog, but VHDL could have been used, as they are equivalent for most purposes.

For an in-depth discussion, take a look to VHDL & Verilog Compared & Contrasted (PDF).

Here are a few tutorials:

• Verilog
• A Verilog tutorial from Deepak Kumar Tala.
• A Verilog HDL quick reference guide from Sutherland HDL, Inc.
• A Verilog HDL quick reference card from Qualis Design corp.
• An Handbook on Verilog HDL from Bucknell University. It focuses on behavioral Verilog though, so useful for simulation or verification only.
• Introducing Verilog, a hands-on Xilinx WebPack tutorial from AWC.
• Rajesh Bawankule's Verilog Center.
• A nice Verilog online manual from this Verilog introduction for digital design page.
• A good self-study course for learning Verilog.
• Aldec's Evita Verilog Tutorial.
• An Introduction on Verilog (PDF).
• VHDL
• A VHDL Tutorial from Green Mountain Computing Systems, Inc.
• A VHDL quick reference card from Qualis Design corp.
• The Accolade VHDL Reference Guide includes a language overview and several examples.
• The VHDL-Online pages.
• Aldec's Evita VHDL Tutorial.
• A VHDL-Handbook from Hardi Electronics.
• A VGA Display on Spartan 3 kit tutorial.

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This page was last updated on December 25 2007.