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    VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language that can model the behavior and structure of digital systems at multiple...
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  • The Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Program was a United States Department of Defense (DOD) research program that ran from 1980 to 1990. Its...
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  • engineering, a hardware description language (HDL) is a specialized computer language used to describe the structure and behavior of electronic circuits, most...
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    An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC /ˈeɪsɪk/) is an integrated circuit (IC) chip customized for a particular use, rather than intended for...
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    Integrated circuit design, semiconductor design, chip design or IC design, is a sub-field of electronics engineering, encompassing the particular logic...
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    Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single...
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    considerations. Digital electronic circuits are usually made from large assemblies of logic gates, often packaged in integrated circuits. Complex devices may have...
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    In integrated circuit design, hardware emulation is the process of imitating the behavior of one or more pieces of hardware (typically a system under design)...
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  • The first planar monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip was demonstrated in 1960. The idea of integrating electronic circuits into a single device was born...
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  • model (TLM) into a register-transfer level (RTL) design in a hardware description language (HDL), which is in turn commonly synthesized to the gate level...
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    the basis of the circuits that model the transistors and other components of integrated circuits that make up modern computer hardware. In 1945, Turing...
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    Field-programmable gate array (category Integrated circuits)
    flexibility, high signal processing speed, and parallel processing abilities. A FPGA configuration is generally written using a hardware description language (HDL)...
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    Computer architecture (category Articles with short description)
    embellished computer, he noted that his description of formats, instruction types, hardware parameters, and speed enhancements were at the level of "system...
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  • Four-valued logic (category Hardware description languages)
    standard called IEEE 1164 and implemented in Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language, VHDL's std_logic. One should not confuse four-valued...
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  • consists of the inverter. When designing digital integrated circuits with a hardware description language (HDL), the designs are usually engineered at a...
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    computing hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid-state devices such as transistors and then integrated circuit (IC)...
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    System on a chip (category Application-specific integrated circuits)
    any new hardware elements are written in an abstract hardware description language termed register transfer level (RTL) which defines the circuit behavior...
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    Logic gate (redirect from Logic circuit)
    single integrated circuit. The field-programmable nature of programmable logic devices such as FPGAs has reduced the 'hard' property of hardware; it is...
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    technology and then the integrated circuit chip led to a series of breakthroughs, starting with transistor computers and then integrated circuit computers, causing...
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  • Place and route (category Articles with short description)
    (also called PnR or P&R) is a stage in the design of printed circuit boards, integrated circuits, and field-programmable gate arrays. As implied by the name...
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    An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic...
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    simulated circuits were described in very high speed integrated circuit (VHSIC) hardware description language (VHDL). Hardware modeling was performed on Xilinx...
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  • single substrate or silicon die). It is the most common measure of integrated circuit complexity (although the majority of transistors in modern microprocessors...
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    A smart card (SC), chip card, or integrated circuit card (ICC or IC card), is a card used to control access to a resource. It is typically a plastic credit...
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    execution interpreter that is written in a general purpose hardware description language such as VHDL to create a system that parses the machine code...
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  • JTAG (category Hardware testing)
    provide vendor-specific features. In the 1980s, multi-layer circuit boards and integrated circuits (ICs) using ball grid array and similar mounting technologies...
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  • systems (e.g. ORDVAC). Asynchronous circuits and theory surrounding is a part of several steps in integrated circuit design, a field of digital electronics...
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  • Fifth Generation Computer Systems (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    based on Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits. There was also a parallel set of generations for software: First generation: Machine language. Second...
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    Arcade system boards have used specialized graphics circuits since the 1970s. In early video game hardware, RAM for frame buffers was expensive, so video chips...
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  • into a programming language that represents a program by a graphical diagram based on the circuit diagrams of relay logic hardware. Ladder logic is used...
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