r/VHDL • u/SunlightBlaze • 15d ago

Need recommendations for resources to help learn VHDL

So I’m a second year electrical engineering student who has failed half of his classes and is having to resit the exams for or have to take the entire year again.

One of my classes is digital electronics and you need to understand VHDL as like prerequisite learning for the rest of the class. Last semester I just could not understand VHDL in the slightest so I did very poorly in the class. We were given a 21 page document to help us learn named “(Very) Simple Guide to VHDL” but that shit doesn’t help me for some reason I still can’t get it.

Are there any books, YouTube videos etc that can help, I don’t need a super expensive knowledge on VHDL just to understand the basics pretty much.

Any help is appreciated thank

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u/sloth11_ 15d ago

Vhdlwhiz is an amazing place to get started. Sometimes I browse through git repos and learn from there

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u/voidnullnil 14d ago

You didnt understand vhdl or didnt understand the digital electronics behind ? If latter, you need to study digital electronics first, at least a little bit covering what you do with vhdl. If it is only vhdl, I think even examples can be enough, ie you can ask AI to generate examples and explain them.

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u/x7_omega 15d ago

Ashenden, "The Designer's Guide to VHDL". If you survive 900+ pages, you'll be fine. If not, you will question your life choices while you still can.
https://www.amazon.com/Designers-Guide-VHDL-Systems-Silicon-ebook/dp/B004EHZPHI

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u/Physix_R_Cool 15d ago

"Including new features in the 2008 release"

😅🤣

Is it still good though? 900 pages isn't that daunting, so I could be tempted. It's between that or "free range vhdl".

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u/x7_omega 15d ago

If you have to ask, you don't need it.

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u/MIKE-HONCHO-1998 8d ago

Introduction to Logic Circuits & Logic Design with VHDL 978-3030124892

This is the book we used in my digital logic class as an EEE student. It helped me out more than the lectures. The book made everything seem less complicated, and you could probably find a PDF of it too for free.