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Begginners : How to learn VHDL!

VHDL is one of the most Hardware Description Language used. This Description Language has many advantages over the others:
VHDL has powerful synthesis functions allowing a strong and friendly design reuse methodology.
This single advantage is so strong designers should not look aside. Good digital designs are generic a parameterizable. They are easy to maintain, reuse and help to produce complex system quicker.

So, How to learn VHDL?

1. Learn Boolean algebra/ Boolean logic
This will give you a better comprehension about the logic of a digital circuit and an overview on how computation is done on basic circuits.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Digital_Circuits


2. Learn Finite state machine and Sequential Logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_state_machine


Those two notions are absolute prerequisite to start coding in VHDL.

This done, you can start a VHDL tutorial and then you're ready for the next chapters.

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