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A hardware description language (HDL) describes the functionality of logic circuits. Given such a description, the design can be simulated or synthesized into a network of elementary gates, like AND, OR, NOT, flip-flops, up to more complex units defined in libraries.

Verilog

The OGP will use Verilog for all HDL programming, at least that's the plan for now.

• Development_Tools

Web Resources

Tutorials

• Verilog Tutorial in the ASIC WORLD Directory.

Verilog Lessons - By Tim

• Introduction
• Verilog Lesson 1 - Signals
• Verilog Lesson 2 - Arithmetic/Logic Operators
• Verilog Lesson 3 - Combinatorial logic expressed behaviourally
• Verilog Lesson 4 - Sequential Logic

Other

• Verilog in Wikipedia with more links.
• http://www.lcdm-eng.com/papers.htm - I (Simon Ruggier) read the 1999 paper about simulation and synthesis mismatches, and it seems like it's useful, assuming it's still correct. I have no experience with synthesis tools, so I can't really evaluate that.

Books

Verilog and VHDL

http://www.jmlzone.com/ Verilog Quickstart Third Edition. (Jb) This book provides a CD and quickly introduces you to simulation and synthesis. The author has been supportive of OGP.

A slightly cheaper book I've (Hamish) found is Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design.
The book comes bundled with a copy of Max-II software.

"HDL Chip Design" by Douglas J. Smith. (Timothy) This book that has VHDL and Verilog side-by-side

"Verilog HDL Synthesis: A Practical Primer" by J. Bhasker. (Timothy)

"Digital Design and Synthesis with Verilog HDL" by Sternheim, Singh, Madhavan, and Trivedi. (Timothy)