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by robinsonb5 1026 days ago
It always makes me grin when newbies complain that VHDL is too verbose. The pain of hooking up the Xilinx AXI interconnect in about three feet of (pre-system)verilog is something I will not forget in a hurry. Having wrapped it in VHDL with nice neat record types, I can now hook it up in just a few lines of VHDL.

I think of it a bit like rat's nest wiring vs. nice neat labelled cable looms.