HDL language standardized by IEEE 1076
VHDL is an acronym for VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHSIC is an acronym for Very High-Speed Integrated Circuits). An industry-standard (IEEE 1076.1) HDL. Recognizable as a file with a .vhd or .vhdl extension. VHDL can be used to model a digital system at many levels of abstraction ranging form the algorithmic level to the gate level. It is IEEE standard 1076-1987. Foundation Express and Base Express products include design entry tools to create VHDL designs.
VHSIC Hardware Description Language. A government-specified HDL. See Hardware Description Language.
An IEEE-standard hardware description language originally developed by the U.S. Department of Defense as a common means of documenting electronic systems. Specified in the IEEE 1076 standard and used by electronic designers to describe and simulate their chips and systems prior to fabrication, an alternative language to Verilog.
VHSIC Hardware Description Language. Originally developed as a language for describing the design of an IC under the VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) program, this language, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, is the military-mandated language for describing hardware functionality as well as a commercially viable standard for high-level descriptions of ICs. VHDL is important because it is required by military contracts, and because it is increasingly desired by commercial customers who use it to model systems composed of one or more parts from several vendors. VHDL will probably be the lasting standard among hardware description languages (HDLs). See VHSIC program.
VHSIC Hardware Description Language, is commonly used as a design-entry language for FPGAs and ASICs in electronic design automation.
VHDL, or VHSIC Hardware Description Language, is commonly used as a design-entry language for field-programmable gate arrays and application-specific integrated circuits in electronic design automation of digital circuits.