What's the VHDL programmer's profile?

[Micru]

Hi all,

Nowadays I'm the last course of Technical Industrial Engineer in
Electronic Engineering (in Spain), and I'd like to enter in the VHDL
programming world. But I've some questions about the profile required
by the industry to the programmers. What is mostly required besides of
the knowledge of the language? Discrete control of signals? Algorithm
implementation? Fuzzy logic?

I ask this because I'll take a year more for learn some interesant
subject.

Thanks,
Micru

 

[Mike Treseler]

Micru wrote:

I've some questions about the profile required
by the industry to the programmers.

Most of the industrial users of VHDL are electronic engineers.
VHDL is a digital hardware description and simulation language.
It is not used as a general programming language and many
of it's users don't consider themselves "programmers".

What is mostly required besides of the knowledge of the language?

Digital electronics.
Gates, flops, counters, shifters, ram,
rom, schematics, netlists, circuit boards.
That sort of thing.

Discrete control of signals?
Lots of that.

Algorithm implementation?
Some of that.

Fuzzy logic?
Not required.

-- Mike Treseler