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 | | In an ideal design environment, the high level description of the system is understandable to the managers and to the designers, and it uniquely and unambiguously defines the hardware. |
 | | By the last stage of design, the initial description has evolved into a detailed description which can be used by a program controlled machine for generation of final hardware in the form of layout, printed circuit board, or gate arrays. |
 | | This ideal design process can exist only if a language exists to describe hardware at various levels so that it can be understood by the managers, users, designers, testers, simulators, and machines. |
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