VHDL development system and coding standard

With the growing complexity of todays ASICs and the number of designers involved in one VHDL ASIC project, the need for a VHDL development system together with coding rules for simulation and synthesis has emerged. This paper describes the VHDL Coding Standard which has been established and the VHDL development system including code entry, code formatting, code compliance checkers, data management and multi-user project set-up.