- VHSIC
VHSIC was a 1980s U.S. government program to develop Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuits.
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United States Department of Defense launched the VHSIC project in 1980 as a joint tri-service (Army/Navy/Air Force) project. The project led to advances inintegrated circuit materials, lithography, packaging, testing, and algorithms, and created numerouscomputer-aided design tools. A well-known part of the project's contribution is theVHDL hardware description language. The program also redirected the military's interest inGaAs ICs back toward the commercial mainstream ofCMOS circuits. [cite book | title = Advanced Signal Processing | author = David J. Creasey | publisher = IEE Telecommunications Series | year = 1985 | isbn = 0863410375 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=iszN4Ohe1b0C&pg=PA134&ots=2VxlTp9rpn&dq=VHSIC&as_brr=3&sig=Uw6t_cKlpC0ZyuJ2y9uYufGCa4Y ] [cite book | title = Government Policy Towards Industry in the United States and Japan | author = John B. Shoven | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1988 | isbn = 0521333253 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=hBpWgC4hcAcC&pg=PA346&ots=7aHdkVzbwg&dq=VHSIC&as_brr=3&sig=WEMtkwa_2NawUyLSjscWnvZiOis ]References
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