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Altera_Forum
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14 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. ...
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14 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.