Introduction - The Need for Education

• In a survey of 71 US universities (representing about half of the EE graduating seniors in 1993), they reported
  • 44% have no training on or use of VHDL in any undergraduate EE course
  • 45% have no faculty members who can teach VHDL
  • 14% of the graduating seniors have a working knowledge of VHDL and only 8% know Verilog
• However, in the 1994 USE/DA Standards Survey, 85% of the engineers surveyed were designers and reported
  • 55% were familiar with EDIF
  • 55% were familiar with VHDL
  • 33% were familiar with Verilog

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