Is VHDL still being used? If so in what industries? I have a chance to learn it from an old guy through a class. It sounds fascinating but wondering how practical it is.
Definitely. We do our FPGA designs in VHDL (industrial machine monitoring). I learned VHDL in school, where it's still being taught. My understanding is that VHDL is more popular in the US, whereas Verilog is more popular in Europe.Is VHDL still being used? If so in what industries? I have a chance to learn it from an old guy through a class. It sounds fascinating but wondering how practical it is.
Id have to strongly dis agree, VHDL and FPGAs are very much going places.Yeah FPGA and VHDL are not going anywhere...
Great answer thank youDefinitely. We do our FPGA designs in VHDL (industrial machine monitoring). I learned VHDL in school, where it's still being taught. My understanding is that VHDL is more popular in the US, whereas Verilog is more popular in Europe.
The VHDL language itself is kind of clunky, but the real challenge is letting go of the top-down sequential flow mentality associated with compiled code and learning to think in terms of parallel hardware flow. Digilent sells relatively inexpensive and well-supported FPGA dev boards that can get you started, and the FPGA manufacturers offer free IDEs that of course support VHDL. It's fun; go for it!
VHDL is Still Being Used by Avionics Companies as they Target their Designs(Usually Low Complex) into FPGAs and CLPDs. As there is no genuine need to relocate the Legacy plan to OOP dialects from VHDL, Since the Synthesis instrument Continue to Support VHDL.Is VHDL still being used? If so in what industries? I have a chance to learn it from an old guy through a class. It sounds fascinating but wondering how practical it is.
IMHO, its going to be replaced by system verilogI'm in the UK, and have spent the last 30 years working on FPGAs. I've never needed to use Verilog as all the various companies where I have worked have used VHDL exclusively in their design teams for sound commercial reasons (becuase VHDL helps catch bugs early, and catching bugs early is MUCH cheaper than trying to find and fix bugs later on in production).
I have worked on both military and commercial radar and high-speed networking and telecoms FPGAs using some of the largest FPGAs money can buy.
VHDL won't ever be replaced by Verilog, but at some point it may be partially replaced by "C-to-VHDL" compilers.