The Verilog Hardware Description Language (Verilog-HDL) has long
been the most popular language for describing complex digital
hardware. It started life as a prop- etary language but was donated
by Cadence Design Systems to the design community to serve as the
basis of an open standard. That standard was formalized in 1995 by
the IEEE in standard 1364-1995. About that same time a group named
Analog Verilog International formed with the intent of proposing
extensions to Verilog to support analog and mixed-signal
simulation. The first fruits of the labor of that group became
available in 1996 when the language definition of Verilog-A was
released. Verilog-A was not intended to work directly with
Verilog-HDL. Rather it was a language with Similar syntax and
related semantics that was intended to model analog systems and be
compatible with SPICE-class circuit simulation engines. The first
implementation of Verilog-A soon followed: a version from Cadence
that ran on their Spectre circuit simulator. As more
implementations of Verilog-A became available, the group defining
the a- log and mixed-signal extensions to Verilog continued their
work, releasing the defi- tion of Verilog-AMS in 2000. Verilog-AMS
combines both Verilog-HDL and Verilog-A, and adds additional
mixed-signal constructs, providing a hardware description language
suitable for analog, digital, and mixed-signal systems. Again,
Cadence was first to release an implementation of this new
language, in a product named AMS Designer that combines their
Verilog and Spectre simulation engines.
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