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10 years ago

Bidirectional bus - noob question

Sorry if this is a basic misunderstanding, but I'm just learning FPGAs (I did electronics at university, but that was 20+ years ago). I've got the Cyclone II dev kit, and I'm trying to set it u...
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10 years ago

A lot of people like Verilog because of its similarities with C, but that makes people fall into the programming trap, rather than trying to describe hardware. VHDL annoys people because of it's strong typing, but this clears a lot of errors that the Verilog compiler will allow and you'll only notice when your code doesnt work properly.

Either way, you're describing the same hardware. Once you understand one language, the other is easier to understand/write.