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Hardware Description Languages: Programming’s Strangest Corner

VHDL and Verilog look like ordinary programming languages, right up until you realize every line of a module runs at the same time, forever, and the order you wrote them in was never a promise about anything. A software engineer opening a VHDL or Verilog file for the first time reads it the only way …

Hardware Description Languages: Programming’s Strangest Corner

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VHDL and Verilog look like ordinary programming languages, right up until you realize every line of a module runs at the same time, forever, and the order you wrote them in was never a promise about anything.

A software engineer opening a VHDL or Verilog file for the first time reads it the only way …

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VHDL and Verilog look like ordinary programming languages, right up until you realize every line of a module runs at the same time, forever, and the order you wrote them in was never a promise about anything. A software engineer opening a VHDL or Verilog file for the first time reads it the only way …

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