Verilog & VHDL from Beginner to Expert

Digital Design & Chip Foundations · 40 illustrated lessons (text/HTML)

Outcomes

• Write synthesizable Verilog and VHDL with the right coding style
• Design FSMs, pipelines and memories that meet timing
• Build testbenches that catch bugs before the board does

Where we teach this

• VLG-101 · Verilog Foundations, Logic and Structure Design guided, self-paced
• VLG-201 · RTL Design & Synthesis-Ready Verilog guided, self-paced
• FPG-101 · FPGA Design for Software Engineers live cohort

The lessons

Every lesson in this curriculum, in the order we teach it.

• 1Digital circuit design basics
• 2Introduction to Verilog and VHDL
• 4Verilog basic structure
• 5VHDL basic structure
• 6Data types and operators
• 7Combinational logic design
• 8Sequential logic basics
• 9Finite state machine design
• 10Verilog procedural blocks: always, initial, and blocking vs non-blocking assignments
• 11VHDL process statements explained
• 12Writing testbenches: structure, stimulus generation and waveform analysis
• 13Functions and tasks: Verilog function and task definitions, and VHDL functions and procedures
• 14Parameterised design overview
• 15Memory modelling: RAM, ROM and FIFO design basics
• 16Arithmetic circuit design
• 17Pipelining
• 18Synchronous circuit design
• 19Asynchronous circuit handling
• 20FPGA architecture overview
• 21Synthesis and implementation: synthesis, place and route, and timing-analysis basics
• 22Advanced Verilog features
• 23Advanced VHDL features
• 24Low-power design: clock gating, power gating and low-power coding styles
• 25Design for test: scan chains, BIST and boundary scan
• 26Bus interface design
• 27Communication protocols in hardware: UART, SPI and I2C
• 28Digital signal processing basics
• 29Hardware implementation of image processing
• 30Processor design basics
• 32Formal verification: equivalence checking, model checking and an introduction to theorem proving
• 33IP core design and integration
• 34Network-on-chip (NoC) basics
• 35High-speed interface design
• 36Secure hardware design: hardware crypto implementations and side-channel protection
• 37AI accelerators: hardware acceleration for neural networks and matrix-operation optimisation
• 38Hardware-software co-design
• 39Project practice
• 40Career guidance for digital IC design