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I want to learn Verilog for small FPGA degigns. I don't have a background
in VHDL but I am an experienced designer. For simple designs, I have used
the schematic capture method.

What do you guys recommend?


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Al Clark wrote:

I want to learn Verilog for small FPGA degigns. I don't have a
background
in VHDL but I am an experienced designer. For simple designs, I have
used
the schematic capture method.

What do you guys recommend?

I recommend Verilog HDL by Samir Palnitkar. It is the best Verilog book
for a beginner (people who never been exposed to HDLs but familiar with
logic design). The author explains exactly what's going on in each line
of the code. Other authors usually just give you a bunch of examples
without explanation. The book helped me to complete my projects with
great success.
For more explanation please see my review at amazon.com.

Hendra

Al Clark wrote:

I want to learn Verilog for small FPGA degigns. I don't have a
background
in VHDL but I am an experienced designer. For simple designs, I have
used
the schematic capture method.

What do you guys recommend?

I recommend Verilog HDL by Samir Palnitkar. It is the best Verilog book
for a beginner (people who never been exposed to HDLs but familiar with
logic design). The author explains exactly what's going on in each line
of the code. Other authors usually just give you a bunch of examples
without explanation. The book helped me to complete my projects with
great success.
For more explanation please see my review at amazon.com.

Hendra

Al,
Also note that Verilog /= VHDL

If you are interested in VHDL, I like:
A VHDL Primer by J Bhasker.

Cheers,
Jim

I want to learn Verilog for small FPGA degigns. I don't have a background
in VHDL but I am an experienced designer. For simple designs, I have used
the schematic capture method.

What do you guys recommend?

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Jim Lewis <Jim@SynthWorks.com> wrote in
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Al,
Also note that Verilog /= VHDL

If you are interested in VHDL, I like:
A VHDL Primer by J Bhasker.

Cheers,
Jim

Thanks Jim,

I know that Verilog is not VHDL. I was just trying to point out that I
don't have that background either.

I am using Verilog because a portion of my project was already written in
Verilog by someone else.

Al

I want to learn Verilog for small FPGA degigns. I don't have a
background in VHDL but I am an experienced designer. For simple
designs, I have used the schematic capture method.

What do you guys recommend?

--
Al Clark
Danville Signal Processing, Inc.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Purveyors of Fine DSP Hardware and other Cool Stuff
Available at http://www.danvillesignal.com

Al Clark wrote:

Jim Lewis <Jim@SynthWorks.com> wrote in
news:10rbv4f18pammbb@corp.supernews.com:

Al,
Also note that Verilog /= VHDL

If you are interested in VHDL, I like:
A VHDL Primer by J Bhasker.

Cheers,
Jim

Thanks Jim,

I know that Verilog is not VHDL. I was just trying to point out that I
don't have that background either.

I am using Verilog because a portion of my project was already written in
Verilog by someone else.

One suggestion, always write your synthesizable code from the examples
given by the tool vendors. Both VHDL and Verilog will compile and
simulate code that can no be synthesized. So design your hardware
first, as a block diagram or in any other form that lets you see the
registers and blocks of logic. Then write your code using the examples
the vendors provide for the various blocks in your diagram.

When used to build hardware, HDLs are not programming languages. They
are hardware description languages, hence HDL, not HPL.

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removed.

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Might want to check out "HDL Chip Design" by Douglas H. Smith.

Teaches Verilog, VHDL, and shows the schematic equivalent next to the
code.

-- Pete

Al Clark wrote:

I want to learn Verilog for small FPGA degigns. I don't have a
background
in VHDL but I am an experienced designer. For simple designs, I have
used
the schematic capture method.

What do you guys recommend?


--
Al Clark
Danville Signal Processing, Inc.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Purveyors of Fine DSP Hardware and other Cool Stuff
Available at http://www.danvillesignal.com

There are several good threads on comp.lang.verilog

A book I've found useful as a reference is:
The Verilog Hardware Description Language

by Thomas & Moorby