[robmccoll]

ANI reminds me of HDLs [1] - I'm assuming that's the inspiration with terminology like "latch"?

Hardware is also concurrent by default. Coding some hardware logic will also change the way you approach coding. Anyone who's interested get an FPGA demo board and write some verilog or VHDL - I highly recommend it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language

[verall]

Yes, I can't really understand why he didn't mention HDLs. I had never seen ANI before but both the syntax and terminology reminded me of VHDL.

[snerbles]

These layers of abstraction seem to lead software bloggers to re-discovering concepts known by hardware engineers for decades.

[DeltaWhy]

Can anyone recommend a good course/book/tutorial for learning Verilog/VHDL? I have a demo board from a course I took in college and would love to try doing some projects with it, but I've had a hard time finding any good learning material.

[snerbles]

Writing test benches in Icarus Verilog was quite helpful for me, along with pretty much everything at asic-world[0]. I haven't looked for a VHDL equivalent of Icarus, unfortunately.

Of course, always remember that "can be compiled" != "can be synthesized".

[0] http://www.asic-world.com/verilog/index.html

[mighty_atomic_c]

I was thinking this while reading, too. Concurrency is everywhere in hardware by default, and explicitly statesd with fork...join!