Learning Verilog for FPGA Development

Learn the fundamentals of Verilog, a popular and concise hardware description language used to create FPGA-based embedded systems.

Introduction

• Verilog: Your key to digital design
• What you should know
• Setting up your environment

1. Hardware Description

• Hardware description languages
• Digital systems
• Levels of abstraction
• Gate level
• Register-transfer level

2. Basic Verilog Syntax

• Verilog modules
• Instantiating modules
• Gates and primitives
• Registers and wires
• Range specification
• Numbers and constants
• Always blocks
• The if-else statement
• Case statements
• Boolean algebra expressions
• Continuous assignments
• Blocking assignments
• Nonblocking assignments
• Challenge: From schematic to code
• Solution: From schematic to code

3. Simulation

• Simulation basics
• Test bench modules
• Stimulus variables
• Clock generation
• Initial and always blocks
• A simple simulation
• Timing directives
• Display tasks
• Challenge: You run the show
• Solution: You run the show

4. Combinational Systems

• Arithmetic and logic operators
• Challenge: Make a 4-bit arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
• Solution: Make a 4-bit arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
• Getting your ALU on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
• A functional demo of the ALU

5. Sequential Systems

• Flip-flops
• Edge sensitivity
• A shift register example
• Challenge: Make a clock divider
• Solution: Make a clock divider
• Getting your clock divider on an FPGA
• A functional demo of the clock divider

Conclusion

• Next steps