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I've just finished a project of about 2,700 lines of code. To me it feels as complex as about 10,000 lines of C.

Do others feel the same, or does it reflect that I've been programming in C for many years, and I am inexperienced in VHDL.

Cheers

Mike

Probably the inexperience.

I have 2 Packages of tools solely for testbenches which total 7500 lines of VHDL. Its been building up over 4 years though!

My largest project has been about 10,000 lines of VHDL (all design work + testbenches), and it only made up about 50% of a chip. Took about 6 months to write, test and integrate and get fully working.

Welcome to the world of HDL.

Phew! Glad to know that it is where I sit on the learning curve.

I will just have to keep on trying till it gets easy. I have already noticed that it is changing the way I think about programming in other languages...

From a newbie's point of view, it seems like you are using a higher level language (almost like C) but the progress you make feels like you have been writing in assembler.

Dick