Chuck Guzis wrote:
VHDL is the ADA of EDA languages--almost no one ever
uses it because
they *want* to. I like Verilog very much; it's straightforward and
not too "dirty".
Agreed. I started using Verilog because it uses C style expressions (and
most of the operator precedence rules are the same), and the language
structure follows similar conventions. The keywords, OTOH, are more like
Pascal...
This does (IME) occasionally "lead you down the garden path" sometimes.
I've found myself thinking in terms of how I'd implement something in
software, then realising that I was writing HDL code and describing
hardware... Makes for some fun design quirks.
(Thankfully I think I've eliminated most of the ones that crept into the
DiscFerret disc analyser -- which is in the first stage of prototyping
at the moment. I'm currently prototyping and stress-testing the power
supply / voltage regulation circuitry)
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/