On 25/04/2016 1:33 AM, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote: > There seem to be a kind of a pattern emerging from what I read around > the net: people who begin or do a little / occasionally / hobbyists > tend to prefer Verilog as "easier", "more familiar", "more concise". > People who do a lot of this / do it for living seem to gravitate > towards VHDL. In my _personal_ observations, I'd say that it's easier to write bad code in Verilog than it is in VHDL. I don't tend to see a lot of bad VHDL, but I've seen some shocking Verilog, though perhaps that's merely a symptom of your observation above?!? The two languages tend to promote slightly different styles of coding. Take a simple register that may be interfaced to a micro bus, for example. In VHDL, and especially in my own code, every piece of logic that relates to the implementation of said register tends to be encapsulated within a single process. OTOH I've seen plenty of Verilog code that scatters different aspects of the implementation all throughout the code, from the decode logic, the reading and the writing. That's not to say you can't do either in both - it's just a style that seems to permeate each language. I'd also venture to say that, on paper, VHDL looks more verbose than it strictly needs to be. Component declarations, for example, are rarely necessary. At the end of the day, most designs comprise the same few constructs over and over again; the register interfaces, some memory/lookup, and the state machines. Once you're adept in coding those, a lot of the time you're simply rolling more of them. Whether it's Verilog or VHDL makes little difference. Regards, -- | Mark McDougall | "Electrical Engineers do it | <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug> | with less resistance!" Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2016-04-25 14:00:03
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