The following tutorial, by Stuart Sutherland of Sutherland HDL, is an updated version of a paper presented at HDLCon in March 2000. It provides an overview of the changes in the Verilog-2001 standard.

[Mark] starts a post from a bit ago with: “… maybe you have also heard that SystemVerilog is simply an extension of Verilog, focused on testing and verification.” This is both true and false, ...

It used to be that designing hardware required schematics and designing software required code. Sure, a lot of people could jump back and forth, but it was clearly a different discipline. Today, a lot ...