CHDL '97

XIII IFIP WG 10.5 Conference on Computer Hardware Description Languages and Their Applications 1997

Silver Jubilee

Hotel Beatriz · Toledo, Spain · 20-25 April 1997

CHDL has been held every other year since 1973, rotating between locations in Europe, North America and Asia. The conference originated under IEEE/ACM sponsorship and since 1981 has been organized by IFIP Working Group 10.2 (now WG 10.5).

The topic has had a significant history with over 100 HDLs published in the 1970s. Since the mid-1980s, HDLs have become commonplace in system design and VLSI. This can be attributed to many factors including:

• the advancing complexity of digital electronics, leading to more sophisticated modeling, simulation, and verification tools.
• the migration of VLSI design to high-level synthesis based on HDLs
• advances in microelectronics CAD toward support of system-level design
• the increasing prevalence of generic and programmable components, of software-hardware and mixed digital-analog hybrid designs.

Presently, we are in a consolidation phase, in which languages and standards are increasingly being used, at the same time as the scope is being broadened to additional application areas (such as analog, microwave or system-level design).

CHDL'97 will present the latest developments in the area in the form of tutorials, invited talks, panel sessions and reviewed papers. In 1997, CHDL will be celebrating its Silver Jubilee, and this will be a very special occasion to learn from the past and look forward to what we might expect from the future.

CHDL'97 will be held in conjunction with other workshops on closely related areas:

• the Spring '97 Working Conference of the VHDL User's Forum in Europe
• the Esprit NADA workshop (about New Hardware Design Methods).
• the Workshop on Libraries, Component Modelling and Quality Assurance

An exhibition will be held in parallel to these events.

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