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Hardware description language: History, Technology & Products

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).

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Hardware description language topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Technology and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Hardware description language.

Related topics
119
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
129
Extracted relationships
63
Concept neighborhoods
59
Bridge connections
129

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 26 topics
Overview · 17 topics
Structure of HDL · 16 topics
High-level synthesis · 15 topics
HDL and programming languages · 13 topics
Motivation · 9 topics
Simulating and debugging HDL code · 9 topics
Design using HDL · 7 topics
Design verification with HDLs · 4 topics
Examples of HDLs · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Motivation

Structure of HDL

History

Design using HDL

Simulating and debugging HDL code

Design verification with HDLs

HDL and programming languages

High-level synthesis

Examples of HDLs

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Hardware description language connects Entity context

The extracted context around Hardware description language shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Hardware description language → Allen Newell's, At, Computer Structures, DEC, DEC's PDP-16 RT-Level Modules, Digital Equipment Corporation, Gordon Bell, ISP, ISPL, ISPS, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, PDP-8, RTMs, The, This, US Another extracted example is Hardware description language → American, Bluespec, C-like, Conversion, Formal, Hardware, HDL, HDLModeling, Notation, Programming, Specification Language, System-level, Temporal, Tools. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Hardware description language

Top relations

related to history · 17
Hardware description language → Allen Newell's, At, Computer Structures, DEC, DEC's PDP-16 RT-Level Modules, Digital Equipment Corporation, Gordon Bell, ISP, ISPL, ISPS, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, PDP-8, RTMs, The, This, US
see also · 14
Hardware description language → American, Bluespec, C-like, Conversion, Formal, Hardware, HDL, HDLModeling, Notation, Programming, Specification Language, System-level, Temporal, Tools
related to Motivation · 11
Hardware description language → CMOS, Due, ECL, Example, HDLs, In, Moore's, TTL, Two, Verilog, VHDL
related to Comparison with control-flow languages · 9
Hardware description language → Before, Digital, Generally, HDL, It, Synthesizers, System Verilog, The, Using

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

hdl design hardware language description hdls languages programming circuit simulation synthesis vhdl verilog used electronic logic model code using also

Hardware description language relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 63 structured relationships around Hardware description language. Examples in this analysis include C or ALGOL → instance of → which can then be placed and routed to produce the set of masks used to create an integrated circuit.A hardware description language looks much like a programming language and a C → instance of → often beginning with a high-level algorithmic description. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
C or ALGOLinstance ofwhich can then be placed and routed to produce the set of masks used to create an integrated circuit.A hardware description language looks much like a programming language0.80text
a Cinstance ofoften beginning with a high-level algorithmic description0.80text
Perl to automatically generate repetitive circuit structures in the HDL languageinstance ofDesigners often use scripting languages0.80text
Cadenceinstance ofcreating a sub-field called high-level synthesis.Companies0.80text
Synopsysinstance ofcreating a sub-field called high-level synthesis.Companies0.80text
Agility Design Solutions are promoting SystemC as a way to combine high-level languages with concurrency models to allow faster design cycles for field-programmable gate arraysinstance ofcreating a sub-field called high-level synthesis.Companies0.80text
SystemVeriloginstance ofInc.'s CoreFire Design Suite and National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA provide a graphical dataflow approach to high-level design entry and languages0.80text
SystemVHDLinstance ofInc.'s CoreFire Design Suite and National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA provide a graphical dataflow approach to high-level design entry and languages0.80text
and Handel-C seek to accomplish the same goalinstance ofInc.'s CoreFire Design Suite and National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA provide a graphical dataflow approach to high-level design entry and languages0.80text
but are aimed at making existing hardware engineers more productiveinstance ofInc.'s CoreFire Design Suite and National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA provide a graphical dataflow approach to high-level design entry and languages0.80text
rather than making FPGAs more accessible to existing software engineers.It is also possible to design hardware modules using MATLABinstance ofInc.'s CoreFire Design Suite and National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA provide a graphical dataflow approach to high-level design entry and languages0.80text
Simulink using the MathWorks HDL Coder tool or DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs or Xilinx System Generatorinstance ofInc.'s CoreFire Design Suite and National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA provide a graphical dataflow approach to high-level design entry and languages0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Hardware description language bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Hardware, Language and Programming. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Hardware description language
    • Hardware
    • Language
    • Programming
    • Languages
    • Software
    • Design
    • Synthesis
    • Netlist
    • System
    • Electronic
    • Specification
    • Logic
  • hardware description language
    • Hardware
    • Language
    • Programming
    • Languages
    • Hdl
    • Software
    • Design
    • Synthesis
    • Netlist
    • Used
    • Electronic
    • System
  • computer language
    • Used
    • Programming
    • Specification
    • Use
    • Circuit
    • Integrated
    • Systemc
    • Needed
    • Systems
    • Software
    • Verification
    • Using
  • electronic circuits
    • Circuits
    • Electronic
    • Systems
    • Integrated
    • Specification
    • Logic
    • Language
    • Design
    • Verification
    • Used
    • Netlist
    • Languages
  • application-specific integrated circuits
    • Electronic
    • Integrated
    • Systems
    • Logic
    • Verification
    • Circuit
    • Used
    • Languages
    • Design
    • Systemc
    • Designs
    • Gate
  • integrated circuit
    • Digital
    • Using
    • Used
    • Hdl
    • Circuit
    • Integrated
    • Use
    • Electronic
    • Vhdl
    • Logic
    • Language
    • Synthesis
  • programming language
    • Software
    • Used
    • Programming
    • However
    • Time
    • Specification
    • Verification
    • Use
    • Circuit
    • Logic
    • Level
    • Needed
  • electronic design automation
    • Circuits
    • Systems
    • Integrated
    • Hdl
    • Specification
    • Hardware
    • Language
    • Verification
    • Design
    • Electronic
    • Logic
    • Used

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Hardware description language, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Hardware description language with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Hardware description language — History · splits 103 ⟂ 27
Hardware description language — Overview · splits 112 ⟂ 18
Hardware description language — Structure of HDL · splits 113 ⟂ 17
Hardware description language — High-level synthesis · splits 114 ⟂ 16
Hardware description language — HDL and programming languages · splits 116 ⟂ 14
Hardware description language — Motivation · splits 120 ⟂ 10
Hardware description language — Simulating and debugging HDL code · splits 120 ⟂ 10
Hardware description language — Design using HDL · splits 122 ⟂ 8
Hardware description language — Design verification with HDLs · splits 125 ⟂ 5
Hardware description language — Examples of HDLs · splits 126 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Hardware description language

Nodes130
Edges129
Triples63
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015385
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Hardware description language to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Technology & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Hardware description language · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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