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Hardware description language
In electronics, a hardware description language or HDL is any language from a class of computer languages for formal description of electronic circuits. It can describe the circuit's operation, its design and organization, and tests to verify its operation by means of simulation.A Hardware Description Language (HDL) is a standard text-based expression of the temporal behaviour and/or (spatial) circuit structure of an electronic system. In contrast to a software programming language, an HDL's syntax and semantics include explicit notations for expressing time and concurrency which are the primary attributes of hardware. Languages whose only characteristic is to express circuit connectivity between a hierarchy of blocks are properly classified as netlist languages.
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Hardware Description Language
<language> (HDL) A kind of language used for the conceptual design of integrated circuits. Examples are VHDL and Verilog.
(1995-04-18)


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