This post tries to introduce the basic vhdl syntax by means of examples. Written about a year ago, its original purpose was to serve as a guide for students that started developing hardware for the CompSOC platform, but I think this info is generally useful for the world. I left most of the CompSOC specific bits in the tutorial for the sake of completion (the occasional CompSOC: label marks them). There is also a section on DTL, which may be interesting for academic readers who wonder how the sentence `DTL, which is similar to AXI‘, which I wrote in my thesis and some papers, actually holds up.

I wrote the guide with Xilinx tools in mind (version 14.7). It gradually introduces new language constructs. Although far from complete, you should be able to find most frequently used snippets in here.

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