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Is FPGA development hard?

FPGA vendors have touted their wares as ideal replacements for DSPs, CPUs, and GPUs – even for all of them in a single device – but they are notoriously difficult for software engineers to program as they are not anything like a conventional processor.

Is it easy to learn FPGA?

To this day (2013 at the time of this post) FPGAs are still very, very, difficult to learn and teach. There are people who want to learn logic and FPGAs that are turned off of the subject because the barrier to entry is still so high.

Is VHDL difficult?

The syntax is different (with Verilog looking very much like C, and VHDL looking more like Pascal or Ada), but basic concepts are the same. Both languages are easy to learn, but hard to master. Once you have learned one of these languages, you will have no trouble transitioning to the other.

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What are the best Verilog projects for FPGA students?

These Verilog projects are very basic and suited for students to practice and play with their FPGA boards. The most popular Verilog project on fpga4student is Image processing on FPGA using Verilog.

What is the Verilog project?

The Verilog project presents how to read a bitmap image (.bmp) to process and how to write the processed image to an output bitmap image for verification. My recommended FPGA Verilog projects are What is an FPGA?, What is FPGA Programming? and Verilog vs VHDL: Explain by Examples.

What are some of the best FPGA tutorials?

Some of the FPGA projects can be FPGA tutorials such as What is FPGA Programming , image processing on FPGA, matrix multiplication on FPGA Xilinx using Core Generator, Verilog vs VHDL: Explain by Examples and how to load text files or images into FPGA.

What is the best book to learn FPGA and VHDL?

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That was until last year (2017), when someone in my company recommended the book Digital System Design with FPGA: Implementation Using Verilog and VHDL. This book covers from the basics to the more advanced concepts of FPGA and includes examples in both Verilog and VHDL, so you can learn both.