Free Range VHDL – VHDL programming book available for free
I learned VHDL a few months ago. Since then I&#x27;ve build a few projects with it (some PCIe and ethernet stuff). I was very excited to learn a HDL because FPGAs seem like extremely powerful devices.<p>However, I now know why FPGAs aren&#x27;t as popular as they could be: the tools are horrible. There is no way FPGAs will become popular among software developers unless the tooling improves dramatically. You can really tell that it was all build by hardware engineers who know their electronics very well, but not good software design.