VHDL is a hardware description language which is used to describe digital circuits or systems. The data involved digital systems is logical data i. e. 0 or 1. Hence, VHDL uses logical data as input and provides the same type of data in output.
A function is a subprogram written in VHDL. This program can be called and used in other programs.
VHDL program follows IEEE library. This means that all the data types, commands, keywords etc. used in a VHDL program are stored in a library called IEEE library. This library will be available in the EDA tool which is executing the VHDL program. 1164 is a package where all the logic gates are defined. This is a sub part of IEEE library. As encoder program requires logic gates, we need to use 1164 package in the code.
Vhdl has got three models - programming styles. 1. data flow model 2. behavioral model 3. structural model.
In VHDL, std_logic is a data type. It is assigned to input and / or output variables. It means that the variable is a standard logic type i. e. a logic bit which accepts or provides one bit data, either 1 or 0.
And when the ASIC industry needed a standard way to convey gatelevel design data and timing information in VHDL, one of Accelleras progenitors (VHDL International) sponsored the IEEE VHDL team to
A virtual calculator can be implemented using VHDL. We call it VHDL calculator.
Quartus is an EDA tool provided by Altera. The very purpose of EDA tools is to simulate hardware description languages. VHDL is a hardware description language. Hence, Quartus is used to simulate VHDL programs.
VHDL is a hardware description language. XILINX is an EDA tool. EDA tools, electronic design and automation tools, are used to implement the programs like VHDL or Verilog. VHDL has several versions. But all these are standardized by IEEE and they don't belong to XILINX. Several FPGAs and CPLDs are manufactured by XILINX.
VHDL is a hardware description language. The purpose of any HDL is to represent hardware as a program. We can write a program (code) for any digital circuit using VHDL. With the help of this code, the output of the circuit can be observed before actually designing it physically.
These are predefined words in VHDL standards. Bit indicates that the data type is a bit i. e. 0 or 1. A bit_vector is an array of bits. example: a: in bit; b: in bit_vector(1 downto 0);
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In VHDL, an array is a collection of elements, all of the same data type, that can be indexed using one or more dimensions, allowing for efficient organization and manipulation of data. A vector, specifically, is a one-dimensional array typically used to represent binary values, such as signals or data buses, and is defined using the std_logic_vector or unsigned types from the IEEE libraries. Both arrays and vectors support various operations, including iteration and slicing, to facilitate complex designs in hardware description.