I'm new to Verilog. Can someone suggest a learning resource, book, video, blog, anything that they had a good personal experience with and helped them learn it faster?
If it helps, I have experience programming in several high-level languages, but have no experience programming in C.
Thanks
Learning Verilog is very far from high-level languages. The syntax has been inspired by C, yes, but designing electronics (be it using VHDL or Verilog) is very different from writing software.
Having said that, I suppose that you have found the obvious through Google. For instance this tutorial, and them main Verilog site. The latter lists books and contains a free tutorial.
There are a number of good text books out there. Online tutorials can introduce the major concepts but there are far fewer hardware engineers using Verilog than there are programmers writing software. You won't get far trying to learn from the few web sites out there.
Of course, there is no point in learning Verilog if you aren't very familiar with digital logic design principles. Verilog is a modeling language, after all, and it is necessary to understand the hardware to model it properly.
"Verilog HDL" by Samir Palnitkar is an easy-to-read, introductory book for Verilog. I found it useful when I was learning the language.
Verilog, first and foremost, is a hardware description language. So you need to have some background in digital design (or at least get yourself familiar with it). Also, the answer to your question will depend on the reason you want to learn Verilog:
are you going to do some FPGA development? If yes, Xilinx and Altera have lots of good Verilog examples and other learning resources. You can install free tools (with some limitations)
are you going to do ASIC development or verification? If yes, browse Synopsys or Cadence sites.
if you just want to learn the language then you'd need at least a simulator to do anything useful with your Verilog code. Look at Icarus Verilog simulator.
I'm a big fan of Stuart Sutherland's papers and books. He has an exceptionally deep understanding of the language and it really comes through in his writing.
As with any language, the best way to learn is by reading other people's code. To that end, consider OpenCores and OpenSPARC. If you have tools from Xilinx or Altera installed, consider looking through the source code for their IP cores (some cores will be obfuscated, but many are not).