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Basic identifiers consist of letters, underscores and digits and must start with a letter. They are not case sensitive. Reserved words of the language cannot be basic identifiers. Examples of valid VHDL basic identifiers: A_myId90 a_MYID90 abcDEf100_1 ABCdef100_1 The two first are equivalent ...

VHDL extended identifiers are delimited by backslashes (\) and can contain letters, underscores, digits, spaces and other special characters (see the Language Reference Manual for a complete definition of special characters). The sequence of characters between backslashes can be reserved words of th...