MB wrote:
That said (and I agree) what first book would you recommend Ralf?
Douglas J. Smith: HDL Chip Design was very helpful to me - 1st, when I
was learning VHDL, and 2nd when I had to do a project in Verilog later.
It is not a "perfect" book, but nice to read with helpful examples.
For text I/O for testbench purpose I could provide some more examples,
but the book provides enough to learn the basic stuff.
And for synthesizable design I would add a chapter about the three basic
things you need in a HDL: flipflops, combinational logic and latches. It
is helpful to repeat, that all other stuff bases on only these 3 things.
HDL Chip Design explains VHDL and Verilog by examples. If you are an
advanced user, that wants to know all the other language contructs,
Ashendens VHDL Cookbook may be an option. Unfortunately he uses the
bit(_vector) for all examples and his big CPU example is only a
simulation model and very far away from beeing synthesizable.
Ralf