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Honored ContributorAHDL, VHDL or Verilog?
Hello everyone, I am new with FPGA. Now I would like to learn FPGA but confused with AHDL, VHDL and Verilog. Could anyone describe what are the difference between them? What is your suggest...
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Honored ContributorAHDL is Altera's proprietary language. I would not bother to learn it.
VHDL and Verilog are the primary HDL languages. Learn a little bit about both and use the one you are most comfortable with. A lot of the newer Altera IP and verification IP is being delivered in SystemVerilog format (the newer-better-Verilog). I primarily develop with VHDL, but for designs that use Qsys and SOPC Builder I have been using SystemVerilog (to save fighting too much with the Altera Verification IP suite). Cheers, Dave
