The Designer's Guide to VHDL
VHDL Resources
Never heard of VHDL, or heard it mentioned and know nothing about it? See the FAQ. Want to know what's happening in the langauge? See VHDL-2008. Looking for our handy "cut-out and keep" guide to vector arithmetic with numeric_std (as seen on Comprehensive VHDL)? See Vector Arithmetic.
Arithmetic with Numeric_std
After many requests we have finally put the handy "cut-out and keep" diagrams of IEEE.numeric_std here on the website. These diagrams are in our Comprehensive VHDL course notes, but not in the VHDL Golden Reference Guide - enjoy!
Design Tips
These articles are all not VHDL-specific but are certainly relevant to engineers using VHDL.
VHDL Backgrounder
A short guide to the nature and origins of VHDL:
Designing Hardware using VHDL
A tour of the features of VHDL that would be used in most projects. This is intended only as a brief introduction, and would not replace attendance of Comprehensive VHDL.
- An Example Design Entity
- Internal Signals
- Components and Port Maps
- Chips into Sockets
- Configurations: Part 1
- Configurations: Part 2
- Order of Analysis
- Vectored Ports & Signals
- Test Benches: Part 1
- Test Benches: Part 2
- Summary, so far...
- Components vs. Processes
- Processes
- RTL Coding
- If statement
- Synthesising Latches
- ASIC Design Tips
VHDL models
Here you will find a collection of VHDL example models. Please note that very few are synthesisable; most are behavioural models that may be useful in the verification of digital systems, but would not themselves be part of that system.
