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exmadscientist 3 hours ago

The main advantage to VHDL is the style of thinking it enforces. If you write your Verilog or SystemVerilog like it's VHDL, everything works great. If you write your VHDL like it's Verilog, you'll get piles of synthesis errors... and many of them will be real problems.

So if you learn VHDL first, you'll be on a solid footing.

pclmulqdq an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There is a trend among programmers to assume that everything supported by the syntax can be done. This is not even true in C++, but it's something people think. If you are writing synthesizable SystemVerilog, only a small subset of the language used in a particular set of ways works. You have to resist the urge to get too clever (in some ways, but in other ways you can get extremely clever with it).

blackguardx 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think this can just be summarized to "write any HDL like you are modeling real hardware." Both VHDL and Systemverilog were primarily intended for validation and synthesis is a second class citizen.