• 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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    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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  • 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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    The Advanced Boolean Expression Language (ABEL) is an obsolete hardware description language (HDL) and an associated set of design tools for programming...
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  • Ruby is a hardware description language designed by Mary Sheeran  [Wikidata] in 1986 intended to facilitate the notation and development of integrated...
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  • hardware verification language, or HVL, is a programming language used to verify the designs of electronic circuits written in a hardware description...
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  • Architecture description languages (ADLs) are used in several disciplines: system engineering, software engineering, and enterprise modelling and engineering...
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  • language – used as a language (or a conceptual model) to describe and represent system architectures Hardware description language – used to model integrated...
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  • Services Description Language (WSDL) Page description language (PDL) Binary Format Description language - extension of XSIL Hardware description language - for...
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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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  • between hardware registers, and the logical operations performed on those signals. Register-transfer-level abstraction is used in hardware description languages...
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    another piece of hardware, typically a special purpose emulation system. The emulation model is usually based on a hardware description language (e.g. Verilog)...
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  • Chisel (an acronym for Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language) is an open-source hardware description language (HDL) used to describe digital electronics...
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  • Behavioral Description Language (BDL) is a programming language based on ANSI C with extensions for hardware description, developed to describe hardware at levels...
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  • Verilog, standardized as IEEE 1364, is a hardware description language (HDL) used to model electronic systems. It is most commonly used in the design...
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    a form of open-source hardware. Instead of the schematics, hardware description language (HDL) code is shared. HDL descriptions are commonly used to set...
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  • architecture description language made by the Advanced Technology Center of Honeywell. AADL is used to model the software and hardware architecture of...
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  • Boundary scan description language (BSDL) is a hardware description language for electronics testing using JTAG. It has been added to the IEEE Std. 1149...
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    wikidata descriptions as a fallback Smalltalk – Object-oriented programming language SPARK – Programming language VHDL – Hardware description language see...
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  • behavioral description. The tool takes a specification, often written in a high-level programming language like C++ or a specialized domain-specific language (DSL)...
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    described in very high speed integrated circuit (VHSIC) hardware description language (VHDL). Hardware modeling was performed on Xilinx FPGA Artix 7 xc7a200tfbg484-2...
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    There are also specialized compilers: MyHDL is a Python-based hardware description language (HDL) that converts MyHDL code to Verilog or VHDL code. Some...
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  • Expression Language, an obsolete hardware description language for hardware descriptions Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), an expression language developed...
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    execution interpreter that is written in a general purpose hardware description language such as VHDL to create a system that parses the machine code...
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  • Verilog, another popular high-level design language, was first introduced as a hardware description language by Gateway Design Automation. Simulators quickly...
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  • SystemVerilog (category Hardware description languages)
    Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is a hardware description and hardware verification language commonly used to model, design, simulate, test...
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    Python, Ruby, Rust, Swift, Verilog and SystemVerilog (hardware description languages). These languages have drawn many of their control structures and other...
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  • specified using a hardware description language Dahl, Ole-Johan, and Kristen Nygaard. "SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language." Communications of...
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  • code in hardware description languages. Since hardware description languages are not considered to be programming languages by most hardware engineers...
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  • examples of this process include synthesis of designs specified in hardware description languages, including VHDL and Verilog. Some synthesis tools generate bitstreams...
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