HDL’s (Hardware Description Languages)
Motivation:
- Chip densities increase hence design complexity increases
- Schematics become insufficient
HLL’s and, for us, HDL’s allow to express
- Functionality (behavior of a design)
- Structure (description in terms of basic components and their interconnections)
- Data flow
HDL’s part of larger system allowing
- Simulation (debugging of the design)
- Synthesis (not in this course)