We will be using Xilinx ISE for simulation and synthesis. This tutorial is not meant to be an in-depth study about Verilog or FPGAs or anything, but just a guide to walk you through different basic things you need to know to design a simple digital circuit in Verilog, simulate it and implement it on hardware. This tutorial expects you to have basic knowledge in Digital Electronics, Familiarity with some programming language (preferably C).
I decided to write this tutorial in the hope that it may help our readers to learn a little bit of Verilog (The HDL I chose to learn first because of its syntax similarity to C), simulate your code and implement it on real hardware.
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There are many tutorials online that will help you learn HDLs, some tutorials tell you how to do simulation, some may tell you about implementation, but no single tutorial that guides you step by step from basics to implementation. But there should be more FPGA tutorials available online now!) that can get you started with learning a little bit of HDL and take you all the way through design, simulation, and implementation. I started googling only to find that there is no FPGA tutorial on the web (that is the case when this tutorial was originally written. Some time back, I wanted to learn about programming FPGAs. To get the best out of this tutorial series, I strongly recommend to download the tools listed at the end of this document and try doing every step as you read along. Let us give it a try and see how fast and easily we can learn a little bit about FPGAs and create a simple working test project with this easy FPGA tutorial. Learning electronics can be a bit challenging sometimes, but it is really fun if you have a little patience to read, understand and experiment.