The following tutorial, by Stuart Sutherland of Sutherland HDL, is an updated version of a paper presented at HDLCon in March 2000. It provides an overview of the changes in the Verilog-2001 standard.

It used to be that designing hardware required schematics and designing software required code. Sure, a lot of people could jump back and forth, but it was clearly a different discipline. Today, a lot ...

FPGAs aren’t really programmed, they are configured. Most designers use Verilog or VHDL to describe the desired circuit configuration. Developers typically simulate these configurations before ...