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Altera_Forum
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Honored ContributorNewcomer to VHDL, need help with debugging
Ok so I started learning VHDL about two months ago or so and recently I was handed the following code: https://pastelink.net/1xvg I kinda know what it does as the case statement of "contad...
Altera_ForumHonored Contributor
Honored ContributorThese are very basic questions that are answered in a Digital Logic text book and VHDL text book/tutorial. Your questions make it appear you think VHDL is like a software language - it is not. It is a hardware description language. It describes a circuit made out of gates and registers. Code is not executed like software programming, all processes in all entities run in parallel.
Also - Xilinx ISE is the compiler for Xilinx devices. This is an altera forum (Xilinx's Competitor). If you need help with ISE, you need to visit the Xilinx forums.
