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 VHDL != SW-Programmierung
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Verilog ist wie VHDL eine Hardwarebeschreibungssprache und ist etwas an C angelehnt...

     "I teach Verilog PLI courses to hardware engineers, and there is one
      dominant characteristic that I have observed. HARDWARE ENGINEERS DO NOT
      THINK THE SAME AS PROGRAMMERS -- AND THEY DO NOT WANT TO THINK LIKE
      PROGRAMMERS.  Without fail, after a few labs of writing C code in my PLI
      class, I hear someone mutter "Damn, I sure am glad I'm not a
      programmer!", followed by a unanimous affirmation from the rest of the
      class.  The terminology used is sometimes a bit stronger than what I
      quote here. :)

      Writing efficient C code, managing memory, avoiding memory leaks,
      thinking in abstract pointers, and such is not at all like hardware.
      There is a very good reason why we have Hardware Description Languages;
      hardware does not work like software.  Programming is something I can
      do, but hardware design is something I can do very, very well.  I don't
      think I'm different than most other hardware engineers in that respect.
      I like designing hardware.  I tolerate spending hour after hour writing
      and debugging C code."

          - Stuart Sutherland, independent PLI consultant
 
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Last Update: 2000-09-30