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authorUnai Martinez-Corral <38422348+umarcor@users.noreply.github.com>2022-02-08 02:47:35 +0000
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.. NOTE::
Historically the 'V' in the language's acronym came from the Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (:wikipedia:`VHSIC <VHSIC>`),
which was the U.S. government program that funded the early work on the standard.
- Changing the 'V' to mean verification reflects the language's increasing usage for verification as well as design.
+ Changing the 'V' to mean *verification* reflects the language's increasing usage for verification as well as design.
See `VHDL 202X PAR <http://www.eda-twiki.org/twiki/pub/P1076/PrivateDocuments/Par1076_202X.pdf>`__ via :ref:`vasg:VHDL202X`.
Although VHDL was not designed for writing general purpose programs, VHDL *is* a programming language: you can write any