Very high Speed Integrated Circuit (VhSIC) hardware Description Language. A large high-level href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=VLSI">VLSI design language with Ada-like syntax. The DoD standard for hardware description, now standardised as IEEE 1076. ["VhSIC hardware Description Language", M.R. Shahdad et al, IEEE Computer 18(2):94-103 (Feb 1985)].