Honored Contributor
Honored Contributorchjones2008, sorry if my comments came across as a bit terse. The intent was to be helpful. It's been a while, but I had a terrible time learning VHDL at first. The key for me, coming from C/C++, was understanding that VHDL is creating hardware and to think in terms of flip-flops and combinational logic. The two books that helped:
"HDL Chip Design" by Douglas J Smith "Essential VHDL RTL Synthesis Done Right" by Sundar Rajan Many VHDL books are voluminous tomes on the language. These are Kernighan&Ritche like and help incrementally learn the language and show what logic a given bit of code with synthesize.
