VHDL-Forum for CAD in Europe: an engineering & scientific point of view

Abstract

As it is well known, the development of the hardware description language (HDL) VHDL was started in 1980 sponsored by the US Department of Defense. Today VHDL has become an important topic in research development, and CAE fields in the US as well as in Europe. Because of this development, user groups were established during the last years, namely the VHD Users' Group (US) and the VHDL-Forum for CAD in Europe. This paper is aimed at emphasizing the engineering and scientific point of view toward the activities of the VHDL-Forum for CAD in Europe.<>