Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) provide a way to textually represent physical electronic systems 1,2. They are used for description, documentation, and communication of digital electronic designs. More recently, they have been used for design verification, simulation, and synthesis. One language, the V(HSIC) hardware description language (VHDL) is now an IEEE standard 3.
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