ASIC design with VHDL
David B. Alford · ACM SIGDA Newsletter · 1991
In the past several years a new hardware description language has emerged as a standard in the electronic computer aided design world. Named the VHSIC Hardware Design Language (the first CAD language to have a recursive acronym), it is quickly being adopted throughout the electronics industry as the design language of choice. Two factors are driving the swift adoption of this language: many CAE vendors are supporting the language for design and simulation purposes, and hardware synthesis using the HDL has become a working reality. ASIC design in the VHSIC Hardware Description Language is proliferating throughout the electronic design world.