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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

re: Help- AHDL tutorial or material

Hi,

I am new in FPGA but with firmware background.

I was just assigned a task to look at an EPLD project coded with ahdl and compiled by max-plus-ii years ago. I need to start a learn curve.

Can anyone tell me where I can get AHDL tutorial or learning material ? or if you point me a roadmap how to start this task, such as I should start learn VHDL first then...? Let me thanks in advance.

Daniel

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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    Understanding another HDL and digital logic will make life easier. AHDL is almost a netlist language. You declare registers/wires and just connect them together.

    eg: 

    
a : dff;  --d flip-flop
a.clk = clk;
a.d = input;
output = a.q;

    But for a tutorial, why not try google?

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ahdl+tutorial

    As Im sure you know, AHDL is now a dead language. Quartus will still compile it, but you wont be able to simulate it. Thats the masive advantage of VHDL or Verilog.