Semiconductor Engineering

Verilog HDL And Its Ancestors And Descendants

This paper describes the history of the Verilog hardware description language (HDL), including its influential predecessors and successors. Since its creation in 1984 and first sale in 1985, Verilog ...
Design-Reuse

Methodology for protection and Licensing of HDL IP

HDL Intellectual Property commerce depends mainly on two factors: protection of investment and flexibility of usage. These two are diverse factors; the higher is the protection, the lower is the ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog?

Designers of electronic hardware describe the behavior and structure of system and circuit designs using hardware description languages (HDLs)—specialized programming languages commonly known as VHDL, ...