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From: adm@otter.hpl.hp.com (Alan Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad
Subject: Re: Re: Book on Verilog HDL
Message-ID: <5650002@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 6 Aug 90 13:51:43 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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>Of course, for all I know, Verilog HDL may in fact _be_ VHSIC HDL. The language
>is (I believe) in the public domain, and Intermetrics licenses its VHDL
>compiler to other companies; I think other companies have also written
>VHDL compilers. Does anyone KNOW if Verilog HDL is VHSIC HDL?

Verilog HDL *IS NOT* VHDL.  Verilog HDL was produced by a company called
Gateway, now part of Cadence Design Systems.  This language has now been
put into the public domain I believe, in the sense that anybody can write
tools to use Verilog HDL.  Verilog HDL is a widely used HDL in the electronics
industry, but is no more than a de-facto standard as far as I know.  There
is also a Verilog simulator from Cadence.

VHDL is the US government favoured HDL, and a recent book on this is :-

VHDL : Hardware Description and Design.
Roger Lipsett, Carl Schaefer, Cary Ussery (all of Intermetrics)
Pub : Kluwer Academic Publishers

If you would like to fly over to the UK, you can read my copy ....

Alan Marshall

HPLabs Bristol



This is not meant as a flame at Verilog (or anyone); I just wanted to 
head off some possible confusion.

-- Jerry Callen
   jcallen@encore.com

Claimer: I used to work at Intermetrics. Several Intermetricians have
		 written a book on VHSIC HDL; I don't recall the title offhand.
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