VHDL (redirect from Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language)
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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Digital electronics (redirect from Digital integrated circuit)
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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Register-transfer level (redirect from RTL description)
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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Parallel computing (redirect from Parallel computer hardware)
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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Transistor count (redirect from List of integrated circuits by number of transistors)
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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Smart card (redirect from Integrated circuit card)
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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Interpreter (computing) (redirect from Interpreted language)
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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Graphics processing unit (redirect from Integrated Graphics Processor)
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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Ladder logic (redirect from Ladder programming language)
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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