On Nov 26, 3:05 pm, jdw <jwal...@nait.ca> wrote:

> Please make any suggestions, i.e. which tools are the best in your
> opinion, as specific and practical as possible. Thanks in advance.
>
> Jack

Keep in mind that you can still do 22V10 CUPL/ABEL/PALASM style
designs in VHDL. Once you get the boilerplate code set up, there's no
reason you can't just go in and start writing the same boolean
equations you are used to. So there's no reason to be intimidated by
all the fancy stuff in the language and it's libraries; it would be
practical to still teach effectively the same course, just with a
different design tool language. You could think of the FPGA in your
demo board as a (really large) 22V10 if you wanted to.

This is likely not what the VHDL power-users would advocate, but if
you want to keep the basic ideas ("here's a NAND gate, here's an
inverted input") very simple, you could do it this way and still be
exposing your students to the very basics of VHDL.

- Kenn