Design Recipes for FPGAs, 2nd Edition

Chapter 4

A Verilog Primer

The Essentials

Abstract

This chapter is designed to give concise and useful summary information on important language constructs and usage in Verilog, hopefully helpful and easy to use, but not necessarily comprehensive. The information is intended for the reader to understand the key concepts in this book. This chapter will introduce the key concepts in Verilog and the important syntax required for most Verilog designs, particularly with reference to FPGAs.

Keywords

Introduction to Verilog

Key concepts

4.1 Introduction

Verilog has been the primary hardware description language (HDL) for digital design worldwide for probably more than 30 years, but it is only relatively recently that it has begun to extend beyond ...