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The Conlan (short for CONsensus LANguage) project started in 1973, motivated by the proliferation of hardware description languages (HDL’s) defined around the world since 1965 [1], Conlan was the first attempt to propose a standardized multi-level HDL, with formally defined semantics.
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Borrione, D., Piloty, R. (1993). CONLAN : Presentation of Basic Principles, Applications and Relation 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_2
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