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VHDL
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VHDL Paradigm behavioural
Appeared in 1980s
Typing discipline strong
Influenced by Ada, Pascal
Website IEEE VASG
VHDL (VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) 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.
History
VHDL was originally developed at the behest of the US Department of Defense in order to document the behavior of the ASICs that supplier companies were including in equipment. That is to say, VHDL was developed as an alternative to huge, complex manuals which were subject to implementation-specific details.

The idea of being able to simulate this documentation was so obviously attractive that logic simulators were developed that could read the VHDL files. The next step was the