• In computer engineering, a hardware description language (HDL) is a specialized computer language used to describe the structure and behavior of electronic...
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  • Altera Hardware Description Language (AHDL) is a proprietary hardware description language (HDL) developed by Altera Corporation. AHDL is used for digital...
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    VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language that can model the behavior and structure of digital systems at multiple...
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  • Expression Language Altera Hardware Description Language Bluespec Confluence ELLA Handel-C Impulse C Lola MyHDL PALASM Ruby (hardware description language) SystemC...
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    Field-programmable gate array (category Hardware acceleration)
    abilities. A FPGA configuration is generally written using a hardware description language (HDL) e.g. VHDL, similar to the ones used for application-specific...
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  • AHDL (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    AHDL may refer to: Altera Hardware Description Language Analog Hardware Description Language; see field-programmable analog array Archives d'histoire...
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  • "Hello, World!" program (category Test items in computer languages)
    Retrieved 19 May 2015. Andersson, Sven-Åke (2 April 2012). "3.2 The first Altera FPGA design". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Archived from the original on 21...
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    Stratix (category Articles with short description)
    (former Altera). Other current FPGA product lines include e.g. Agilex, Arria and Cyclone families. Stratix FPGAs are typically programmed in hardware description...
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  • developed a tools to translate from the C programming language to hardware description languages. The company was established in 1996 by Don Soderman,...
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    Agilex (category Articles with short description)
    in hardware description languages such as VHDL or Verilog, and compiled using the Quartus Prime computer software. Higher level design languages, such...
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    Endianness (category Articles with short description)
    at relative positions 2, 3, 4 and 7 of the descriptor start. Hardware description languages (HDLs) used to express digital logic often support arbitrary...
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    gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators. OpenCL specifies a programming language (based on C99) for programming these devices...
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  • C to HDL (category Hardware description languages)
    C to HDL tools convert C language or C-like computer code into a hardware description language (HDL) such as VHDL or Verilog. The converted code can then...
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    Complex programmable logic device (category Hardware acceleration)
    logic blocks. Language: VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) Verilog Hardware Description Language Standard Test and Programming Language (JAM/STAPL)...
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  • Compiler (redirect from Language compiler)
    needed] Hardware compilers (also known as synthesis tools) are compilers whose input is a hardware description language and whose output is a description, in...
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  • JTAG (category Hardware testing)
    manufacturers. In 1994, a supplement that contains a description of the boundary scan description language (BSDL) was added. Further refinements regarding...
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  • High-level synthesis (category Hardware acceleration)
    model (TLM) into a register-transfer level (RTL) design in a hardware description language (HDL), which is in turn commonly synthesized to the gate level...
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  • Sprinter (computer) (category Articles with Russian-language sources (ru))
    called a "Flex architecture", using an Altera PLD as part of the core logic. This allows the machine's hardware to be reconfigured on the fly for different...
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  • List of HDL simulators (category Hardware description languages)
    software packages that simulate expressions written in one of the hardware description languages, such as VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog. This page is intended...
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  • MiSTer (category Articles with short description)
    various "cores" designed to run on the DE10-Nano, written in a hardware description language. Each core is designed to configure the FPGA into a specific...
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    Vivado (category Articles with short description)
    Design Suite is a software suite for synthesis and analysis of hardware description language (HDL) designs, superseding Xilinx ISE with additional features...
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    Amiga (category CS1 Czech-language sources (cs))
    resides in the physical Altera FPGA programmable chip. In 2006, two new Amiga clones were announced, both using FPGA-based hardware synthesis to replace...
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  • Block floating point (category Articles with short description)
    Block Floating Point Scaling" (PDF) (Application note). San Jose, CA, USA: Altera Corporation. October 2005. 404-1.0. Archived (PDF) from the original on...
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  • Processor register (category Articles with short description)
    a small amount of fast storage, although some registers have specific hardware functions, and may be read-only or write-only. In computer architecture...
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  • simulator. Digital hardware is described using hardware description languages (HDL) like VHDL, Verilog or System Verilog. These descriptions are simulated...
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  • FpgaC (category Hardware description languages)
    for reconfigurable computing on FPGAs or CPLDs, rather than a Hardware Description Language (HDL) for building efficient custom ASICs. The historical roots...
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  • Reconfigurable computing (category Articles with short description)
    flexibility of software with the high performance of hardware by processing with flexible hardware platforms like field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)...
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    FreeRTOS (category Articles with short description)
    includes task scheduling and kernel calls for semaphore and queue operations. Altera Nios II ARM architecture ARM7 ARM9 ARM Cortex-M ARM Cortex-A Atmel Atmel...
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    Programmable logic device (category Articles with short description)
    analogous to software compilers. The languages used as source code for logic compilers are called hardware description languages, or HDLs. PALASM, ABEL and CUPL...
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  • Verilog-to-Routing (category Articles with short description)
    main purpose is to map a given circuit described in Verilog, a hardware description language, on a given FPGA architecture for research and development purposes;...
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