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diff --git a/doc/about.rst b/doc/about.rst index 17eeabc7e..0ab41a26a 100644 --- a/doc/about.rst +++ b/doc/about.rst @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ an advantage in general as well). However, VHDL was not designed as a general purpose language but as an `HDL`. As the name implies, VHDL aims at modeling or documenting electronics systems. Due to the nature of hardware components --which are always running--, VHDL is a highly concurrent language, built upon an -event-based timing model. +event-driven execution model. Like a program written in any other language, a VHDL program can be executed. Since VHDL is used to model designs, the term :dfn:`simulation` is often used instead of `execution`, with the same |