BHardware Description Languages
B.1 Introduction
This section briefly reviews the Verilog and VHDL hardware description languages. These are both complex languages and this section is not intended to be a complete guide by any means. Hopefully, these sections can help remind you of some basic syntactic elements of the languages.
B.2 Verilog
The IEEE standard defines Verilog. Books by Thomas and Moorby [Tho98], Smith and Franzon [Smi00], and Ciletti [Cil03] are useful guides to the language.
B.2.1 Syntactic Elements
Verilog has two forms of comments:
/* this is a multiline comment */// this is a comment
Verilog defines the value set [ 0 1 x z ] of signal values. The value x is the unknown value, ...
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