AHPL

A Hardware Programming Language (AHPL) is software developed at University of Arizona that has been used as a tool for teaching computer organization.

It was initially started as a set of notations for representation of computer hardware for academics, which is later started to be considered as a Hardware Description Language [1] on development of compiler and simulator [2] for it. This language describes a hardware functionality as flow of data between the ports or sub-modules.

The notation, syntax, and semantics were based on the APL [3] programming language.

References
  1. Sagahyroon, Assim A. (2000). "From AHPL to VHDL: a course in hardware description languages". IEEE Transactions on Education. IEEE Computer Society. 43 (4): 449–454. doi:10.1109/13.883357.
  2. Navabi, Z.; Hill, F. J. (1979). Efficient Simulation of AHPL. Proceedings of the 16th Design Automation Conference. DAC '79. San Diego, CA, USA: IEEE Press. pp. 255–262.
  3. Hill, Frederick J. (1974). "Introducing AHPL". Computer. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society. 7 (12): 28–30. doi:10.1109/MC.1974.6323406. ISSN 1558-0814.


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