Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware DescrIPtion Language. A large high-level 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)].