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Superlog HDL
Superlog HDL is a hardware description language (HDL) developed by Co-Design Automation, Inc. in the late 1990s. It was designed as an extension to Verilog with additional features for modeling complex hardware systems and supporting advanced formal verification functionality. Superlog played a significant role in the eventual development of SystemVerilog, which was standardized by Accellera and later adopted by the IEEE. History Co-Design Automation was a small California based private company co-founded by Simon Davidmann and Peter Flake, and backed by industry experts such as Andy Bechtolsheim co-founder of Sun Microsystems and Rajeev Madhavan founder of Magma Design Automation. Flake and Davidmann had both been involved with the development of HILO which had laid the foundations for Verilog. Co-Design Automation introduced Superlog to address limitations in traditional Verilog for large-scale hardware projects. By combining hardware modeling constructs with higher-level v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardware Description Language
In computer engineering, a hardware description language (HDL) is a specialized computer language used to describe the structure and behavior of electronic circuits, usually to design application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and to program field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). A hardware description language enables a precise, Formal language, formal description of an electronic circuit that allows for the automated analysis and Electronic circuit simulation, simulation of the circuit. It also allows for the Logic synthesis, synthesis of an HDL description into a netlist (a specification of physical electronic components and how they are connected together), which can then be Place and route, placed and routed to produce the Mask set, set of masks used to create an integrated circuit. A hardware description language looks much like a programming language such as C (programming language), C or ALGOL; it is a textual description consisting of expressions, statements and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |