IEEE 1076

The IEEE Standard 1076 defines the VHSIC Hardware Description Language or VHDL. It was originally developed by CLSI under contract F33615-83-C-1003 from the United States Airforce in 1983. The language has undergone numerous revisions and has a variety of sub-standards associated with it that augment or extend it in important ways.

1076 was and continues to be a milestone in the design of electronic systems.

Revisions:

• 1076-1987 First standardized revision of ver 7.2 of the language from the United States Air Force.
• 1076-1993 (ISBN 1-55937-376-8) Significant improvements resulting from several years of feedback. Probably the most widely used version with the greatest vendor tool support.
• 1076-2000 Minor revision. Done mainly to meet IEEE requirement that standards are addressed every five years to see if they are still pertinent
• 1076-200x The name given to future work on the standard going on as of 2004

See Also:

• IEEE 1076.1 VHDL Analog and Mixed-Signal
• IEEE 1076.1.1 VHDL-AMS Standard Packages (stdpkgs)
• IEEE 1076.2 VHDL Math Package (math)
• IEEE 1076.3 VHDL Synthesis Package (vhdlsynth)
• IEEE 1076.3 VHDL Synthesis Package - Floating Point (fphdl)
• IEEE 1076.6 VHDL Synthesis Interoperability
• IEEE 1164 VHDL Multivalue Logic (std_logic_1164) Packages