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Altera_Forum
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16 years agojust beginning
Hello. I am Rick Phillips. I am a student at Ivy Tech taking a course in digital electronics. Part of the course is about AHDL and VHDL. I am new to programming. I find that there are a lot of...
Altera_Forum
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16 years agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/literal_(computer_science)
This is a good source. Nothing can replace a teacher, a group discussion. libraries , literals, standard logic, primitives Let me try. 1. Library In computing world, Library refers to a set of functions ( function is a basic math term Y= f(x) ) which you will use in your program (Code) while wring the program. These are generally / universally used by all and made by, usually experts, packaged and kept in the system . The code you write can use any of these and they get assembed in your final program which runs in the computer ( executable) 2. Literals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/literal_(computer_science) In computer science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/computer_science), a literal is a notation for representing a fixed value (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/value_(computer_science)) in source code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/source_code). 3. standard logic, primitives AND, OR, NOT,NAND,NOR -- these are all standard LOGIC functions. primitives are basic functions one uses. best of luck GKM