Switch in Verilog

Here’s how to express the Go example in Verilog, maintaining the structure and explanations provided:

Our first program will print the classic “hello world” message. Here’s the full Verilog code.

module hello_world;

  initial begin
    $display("hello world");
    $finish;
  end

endmodule

To run the program, save the code in hello_world.v and use a Verilog simulator like Icarus Verilog to execute it.

$ iverilog -o hello_world hello_world.v
$ vvp hello_world
hello world

Verilog doesn’t generate binaries like procedural languages, but the compiled output (hello_world) can be executed directly by the simulator.

Now that we can run and compile basic Verilog programs, let’s learn more about the language.