Peter Wilson EETimes, 7/19/2011 1:05 AM EDT Editor’s Note: In this series of articles based on his book – Design Recipes for FPGAs – Peter Wilson provides a basic quick overview of VHDL (VHSIC ...

Editor’s Note: In this series of articles based on his book – Design Recipes for FPGAs – Peter Wilson provides a basic quick overview of VHDL (VHSIC hardware description language) followed by ...

I'm an FPGA guy by day, we use VHDL exclusively at work and I've yet to find an open source alternative (gHDL etc) that holds a candle to the paid (or free but limited) tools.

I am new to VHDL programming (although I've programmed in other languages like C++, java, etc.). I've been searching the web for help in writing a 4 bit multiplier (i.e. 0111 x 0110). I found ...