NAPA, Calif. — Implementation of the new Verilog-2001 hardware description language became practical with the IEEE's release Wednesday (Oct. 17) of documentation that describes the standard, ...

Modeling languages are too weak for electronic-system-level design. SystemC, SystemVerilog, and Verilog 2005 have many common features. The working groups hope to merge SystemVerilog and Verilog 2005 ...

Verilog was proprietary, while VHDL was open source, and competitors began pushing VHDL for IEEE standardization to break Cadence's stranglehold on logic simulation. The company responded by founding ...