On Friday 06 July 2007 10:56:55 Luis Moreira wrote:
> I will be using FPGA's in the near future and although I have done some
> small things using Verilog in the past, I have not done anything for a
> while. As I am pretty much starting from the beginning I would like to
> know your opinion on which language should I look into.
> If you have any links to any interesting sites please let me know.

In a general sense, many people in industry seem to prefer Verilog over VHDL. 
So, that might be a consideration.

However, with these things, I would say that the techniques are more important 
than the actual language. All the major tools can handle either language well 
enough. So, it would actually be the techniques that you should concentrate 
on.

I find it fairly useful to approach these problems from a hardware 
perspective. It is a good idea to know how the hardware looks like before 
writing any code. Looking at it from the point of view of software is not 
feasible as these are not software programming languages. Keep in mind that 
the languages describe hardware.

If you wish to study some available open source designs, check out 
www.opencores.org.

cheers.

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