Written expressly for hardware designers, this book presents a formal model of VHDL clearly specifying both the static and dynamic semantics of VHDL. It provides a mathematical framework for representing VHDL constructs and shows how those constructs can be formally manipulated to reason about VHDL.

1. Introduction. 2. Related Work. 3. The Static Model. 4. A Well-Formed VHDL Model. 5. The Reduction Algebra. 6. Completeness of the Reduced Form. 7. Interval Temporal Logic. 8. The Dynamic Model. 9. Applications of the Dynamic Model. 10. A Framework for Proving Equivalences Using PVS. 11. Conclusions. Appendices. References. Index.