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VHDL is a comprehensive language for digital system design and documentation, encompassing system to gate levels of abstraction. This introduction to the language first provides a short history of the language, concentrating on the needs identified by the developers and on the principles behind the its design. Then, an overview of the language’s semantic model is discussed; finally, features introduced in the latest version of the language are briefly explored.
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Menchini, P.J. (1993). An Introduction to VHDL. In: Mermet, J.P. (eds) Fundamentals and Standards in Hardware Description Languages. NATO ASI Series, vol 249. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1914-6_11
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