Thanks for taking the time to explain it, I wish I knew all of this when I started tinkering with Verilog - it would be much easier. Btw, consider writing a FPGA related blog, you have a lot to teach and you explain well! :)
I'm afraid I've mostly worked in standard-cells rather than FPGAs, and that was a while back, I used to be the software guy in the hardware group (and the hardware guy in the software group).
These days I build embedded stuff, living on the hardware/software edge I still get to make the software/hardware tradeoffs that others often can't do
These days I build embedded stuff, living on the hardware/software edge I still get to make the software/hardware tradeoffs that others often can't do