VHDL

During my internship period, I got the chance to implement an SPI Communication between an FPGA (Spartan 3E) and an MSR(Magnetic Stripe Reader) chip.

In the earlier blog post, I mentioned some important information about SPI communication.

Here, I will mention some brief information about my MSR implementation. I used VHDL as the language. In developing the project and used Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13.3.

"The VHSIC Hardware Description Language is an industry standard language used to describe hardware from the abstract to the concrete level. VHDL resulted from work done in the  ’ 70s and early  ’ 80s by the U.S. Department of Defense. Its roots are in the ADA language, as will be seen by the overall structure of VHDL as well as other VHDL statements. VHDL usage has risen rapidly since its inception and is used by literally tens of thousands of engineers around the globe to create sophisticated electronic products.

VHDL is a powerful language with numerous language constructs that are capable of describing very complex behavior. Learning all the features of VHDL is not a simple task."

Taken from : VHDL: Programming by Example by Douglas L. Perry