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Fundamentals and Standards in Hardware Description Languages (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Fundamentals and Standards in Hardware Description Languages (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: NATO Science Series E:, 249
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The second half of this century will remain as the era of
proliferation of electronic computers. They did exist before, but
they were mechanical. During next century they may perform other
mutations to become optical or molecular or even biological.
Actually, all these aspects are only fancy dresses put on
mathematical machines. This was always recognized to be true in the
domain of software, where "machine" or "high level" languages are
more or less rigourous, but immaterial, variations of the
universaly accepted mathematical language aimed at specifying
elementary operations, functions, algorithms and processes. But
even a mathematical machine needs a physical support, and this is
what hardware is all about. The invention of hardware description
languages (HDL's) in the early 60's, was an attempt to stay longer
at an abstract level in the design process and to push the stage of
physical implementation up to the moment when no more technology
independant decisions can be taken. It was also an answer to the
continuous, exponential growth of complexity of systems to be
designed. This problem is common to hardware and software and may
explain why the syntax of hardware description languages has
followed, with a reasonable delay of ten years, the evolution of
the programming languages: at the end of the 60's they were" Algol
like" , a decade later "Pascal like" and now they are "C or
ADA-like". They have also integrated the new concepts of advanced
software specification languages.
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