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VHDL is a comprehensive language that allows a user to deal with design complexity. Design, and the data representing a design, are complex by the very nature of a modern digital system constructed fr
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VHDL is a comprehensive language that allows a user to deal with design complexity. Design, and the data representing a design, are complex by the very nature of a modern digital system constructed fr
The VHSIC hardware description language (or VHDL) provides a standard textual means of description for hardware components at abstraction levels ranging from the logic gate level to the digital system level. It provides precise syntax and semantics for these hardware components, enabling design transfer both within and among organizations. The language is designed to be efficiently simulated and natural for hardware designers. In addition, it allows designers to represent information outside the primary range of language coverage, although the initial toolset does not support simulation at those levels (switch level, for example). Finally, by not restricting designers to a particular hardware technology or design style, the language permits wide industrial usage.
An effort to determine a set of features offered by program analysis and testing tools that could be feasibly implemented in a compiler is reported. Currently, program analysis and testing tools offer features that require syntactical analysis of a program in a manner similar to compilers.