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16 years ago

Newbie Question on Cyclone III

Hi, I’ve done a lot of x86 Assembly and C programming in the past and have wanted to play around with microcontroller programming for a while. Initially I’d like to start with simple “hello world” ap...
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16 years ago

Hmm, I take it back, after reading some how-to guides, examples, and snippets from books it looks like VHDL has variables, conditional flow, and all the other neat things that make it like any other programming language just with an emphasis on hardware :)

Correct?

I ordered these books:

circuit design with vhdl

the designer's guide to vhdl, volume 3, third edition (systems on silicon)