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Many of VHDL standards are sponsored by either IEEE DASC or Accellera. Find more about these organizations at:

DASC: www.dasc.org
Accellera: www.accellera.org

The standards groups are run by volunteers. Participation is open to anyone. For details see, Participating and Balloting on Standards

If you don't find a link to a specific VHDL working group below, you may also wish to check www.eda.org

VHDL Analysis and Standardization Group (VASG) = IEEE 1076

VASG is responsible for maintaining and extending the VHDL standard (IEEE 1076). Currently VASG collaborating with the Accellera VHDL TSC to accomplish this task. See VASG webpage for details. See below for links to Accellera VHDL TSC webpage.

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Accellera VHDL TSC

The Accellera VHDL TC is responsible for the majority of the revision effort. This includes prioritizing enhancement requests, proposing enhancements, and making sure the enhancements and bug fixes get integrated into the VHDL standard.

As such, if you want to have a technical impact on VHDL, it is important to participate in the Accellera VHDL TSC.

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VHDL RTL Coding Styles = IEEE 1076.6

Goal: Portable VHDL RTL coding styles. Users who write code compliant to this standard will interoperate on all compliant synthesis tools.

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Fixed and Floating Point Arithmetic Packages. Was IEEE 1076.3

Now being of the IEEE 1076 standard.

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List of links to standards (it is terse): www.eda.org

Participating and Balloting on Standards

I encourage any senior member of VHDL's design community to participate. These organizations are run by volunteers. If you ever wonder why some new feature does not get added, it may be because you are not participating.

Participation is open to anyone. To be a voting member of a working group you must be a member of DASC. To ballot on a standard and have your ballot count, you must be a member of IEEE and IEEE SA. Follow the links to find information about joining these organizations.

EDA Vendors and Standards

One thing engineers forget is that EDA companies are a business. As a business, they are obligated to do things that will make them money. They are willing to implement features for which users are willing to pay. Hence, for standards to be supported, users need to ask their vendors to support the standard.

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