LOL, I love this thread. Hardware is the new Software! But Hardware description languages are just that, structured languages that describe hardware. If you com

LOL, I love this thread. Hardware is the new Software! But Hardware description languages are just that, structured languages that describe hardware. If you come from a background of programming, it will be hard for you. I am someone who comes from a background of hardware that had to learn software, but then when Verilog came along, oh man, was I in heaven. Do not think of VHDL or Verilog as a language, think of it more in terms of HTML, HTML is a mark up language for type setting, HDL is a mark up language for hardware. Hardware is not sequential, everything will happen at the same time unless you prevent that with a state machine. With sequential languages like C or Pascal etc., everything happens sequentially unless you go out of you want to try to make things happen seemingly at once. With HDL, you have the opposite problem, everything will happen at once on each clock cycle, unless you make a state maching to make things sequential. Once you see this, and the amazing power of it, you will see why I say... Hardware is the next Software.