An Introduction To VHDL:

Project Info
Author: Chris
Difficulty: Medium
Time Invested: 2 Hours

Prerequisites:
Take a look at the above
tutorials before continuing
to read this tutorial.
           The two main programming languages for fpga/cpld devices in the world today are Verilog & VHDL. Both are concurrent programming languages (similar to Ada) and both are used globally. The difference between them is merely syntax, formation but not funcationality.
           For this tutorial the CPLD development board that was built previously will be used (seen in the CPLD Dev Board & An Introduction To Verilog tutorials). The altera UP1/UP2 development boards can be substituted if you haven't built the CPLD development board.


VHDL - VHSIC Hardware Description Language
VHSIC - Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuits

The CPLD Development Board

The CPLD Development Board

Purpose & Overview of this project
           The goal of this project is to learn the basics of the VHDL programming language. A small & short program will be created that displays output of the numbers 0->8 on the 7-segment display. The number to be displayed will depend upon the DIP switch input. If 0 is input, display 0..if 1, display 1..etc.



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