VHDL

VHDL is the abbreviation for VHSIC Hardware Description Language. VHDL is one of a number of hardware description languages, employed, amongst others, in Programmable Hardware.

VHDL

• Altium VHDL Reference
• VHDL Tips and Tricks on FPGA4fun
• Synario VHDL Reference Manual
• Peter Ashendes's VHDL tutorial
• VHDL Examples at ASIC-World

Further Resources

• HDL Tutorials at fpga4fun
• VHDL tutorial by GreenMountain Software
• VHDL Design Methodology

Specific Topics

Types

• VHDL Types in the VHDL Summary, part of VHDL reference material of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, CSEE Department

Type Conversion and Casting

VHDL is a strong typed language. Therefore, sometimes, explicit conversion/casting is necessary

Attributes

Attributes are additional aspects of objects, written as <variable>'<attribute>.

• Ubderstanding VHDL attributes