Verilog - Hardware description language

Verilog is a hardware description language created in 1984 by Phil Moorby and Prabhu Goel.

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Verilog, standardized as IEEE 1364, is a hardware description language (HDL) used to model electronic systems. It is most commonly used in the design and verification of digital circuits at the register-transfer level of abstraction. It is also used in the verification of analog circuits and mixed-signal circuits, as well as in the design of genetic circuits.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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See also: (5 related languages) SystemVerilog, C, VHDL, OpenVera, Property Specification Language

Example from Riju:

module main;

initial begin
  $display("Hello, world!");
end

endmodule

Example from hello-world:

module main;
  initial
    begin
      $display("Hello World");
      $finish;
    end
endmodule

Example from the Hello World Collection:

/* Hello World in Verilog. */

module main;

 initial
   begin
     $display("Hello, World");
     $finish ;
   end

 endmodule

Example from Linguist:

`timescale 1ns / 1ps
// Copyright (C) 2008 Schuyler Eldridge, Boston University
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
// along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
module mux(opA,opB,sum,dsp_sel,out);
	input [3:0] opA,opB;
	input [4:0] sum;
	input [1:0] dsp_sel;
	output [3:0] out;
	
	reg cout;
	
	always @ (sum)
		begin
			if (sum[4] == 1)
				cout <= 4'b0001;
			else
				cout <= 4'b0000;
		end
	
	reg out;
	
	always @(dsp_sel,sum,cout,opB,opA)
		begin
			if (dsp_sel == 2'b00)
				out <= sum[3:0];
			else if (dsp_sel == 2'b01)
				out <= cout;
			else if (dsp_sel == 2'b10)
				out <= opB;
			else if (dsp_sel == 2'b11)
				out <= opA;
		end

endmodule

Example from Wikipedia:

initial
  a = 0;

initial
  b = a;

initial
  begin
    #1;
    $display("Value a=%d Value of b=%d",a,b);
  end

Verilog Keywords

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Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Binary Literals	✓	// ([0-9]+)\|(\'b)[01]+
Integers	✓	// ([0-9]+)\|(\'d)[0-9]+
Floats	✓	// (\d+\.\d*\|\.\d+\|\d+)[eE][+-]?\d+[lL]?
Hexadecimals	✓	// ([0-9]+)\|(\'h)[0-9a-fA-F]+
Octals	✓	// ([0-9]+)\|(\'o)[0-7]+
Conditionals	✓
Functions	✓
While Loops	✓
Case Sensitivity	✓
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Print() Debugging	✓		$display
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X