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@@ -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