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[almaw@comcast.net]

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From: Rick Sivernell <res005ru at verizon.net>
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:48:59 +0000
> almaw at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> 
[snippage of praise for dead OSs and programming languages]

> > 
> > I need to pick up [V]HDL this semester, can anyone recomend a good manual or
> > tutorial?
> 
>   [V]HDL, what is it ? Mainframe, hardware lang!
> 
>   There are just too much out there and everyday a new one shows up. All 
> managers
> tend to get caught up in buzz words after reading about something. Like popcorn,
> jumping from one to another.

[V]HDL is more an engineering thing.  It is a description language for defining logic in a chip.  It is used to program FPGAs and the like.  I will be using it to build FIR and IIR filters on a FPGA, so need to pick it up.  It is just being introduced to the intro (core) curriculum, so I missed the introduction.  Now I need to know it.

    -- Alma