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Regular ContributorIs this you 11 years ago pushing AHDL?
Give it up, my man. AHDL is dead. Has been for quite a while. There is no business case for Intel doing anything with AHDL.
Verilog/SystemVerilog or VHDL for a close-to-hardware design methodology is now mainstream.
Higher level abstraction like OpenCL has much more of a following than any low level AHDL-like derivatives.
I have used Verilog since the late 80s and have found it to have the right balance between direct hardware description and higher level abstraction for behavioral simulation tasks, like test benches. It is descriptive without being too verbose.
I find VHDL to be needlessly verbose for my taste. Verilog is like programming in C, whereas VHDL is like programming in Pascal.
Either one gets the job done, but it just takes more (needless) typing to get it done in VHDL vs Verilog, in my opinion, for little benefit.
I sure others will disagree.
My 2c.
