Since the adoption of hardware description languages (HDLs) as the methodology of choice for digital design in the early 1990s, an abundance of EDA tools based on the Verilog, VHDL and, later, SystemVerilog languages have been introduced. Providing full support of these languages for simulation and synthesis purposes turned out to be a large differentiator between EDA providers in the early days. But over time, as the industry started to better understand the languages and their implications, the quality of the EDA tools improved to a point where digital design engineers expect full support of the IEEE standards that define these HDLs.
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