1. All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, and 3D ICs
Part II. Understanding the Role of Hardware Description Languages
11 December 2012 Clive “Max” Maxfield

2. Creating a Program for an MCU

3. Creating a Design for an FPGA

4. Things Happen Sequentially in S/W
Pseudo-code example of regular (sequential) programming language like C/C++

5. Things Happen Concurrently in H/W

6. HDLs Capture Concurrency
Pseudo-code example of HDL like Verilog or VHDL

7. Simulation and Synthesis

8. A Honking Big S/W Program

9. A Honking Big H/W Design

10. Procedures and Functions in S/W

11. The Way the S/W Program Executes

12. Blocks (Modules) in H/W

13. The Way the H/W Could Run

14. Multiple S/W Proc/Func Calls

15. Multiple H/W Block Instantiations

16. Multiple H/W Block Instantiations…

17. Multiple H/W Block Instantiations…

18. Different Levels of Abstraction
Additional Terms
Functional
Behavioral
Structural

19. Different Levels of Abstraction (cont.)

20. The Origins of HDLs A cornucopia of languages SPICE VHDL / Verilog
UDL/I
Superlog / SystemVerilog
Bluespec SystemVerilog (BSV)
MyHDL
SystemC

21. More Information / Further Reading