HDL Quiz

What does HDL stand for?

• Hardware Description Language

• High-Density Logic

• High-Level Design

• Hardware Design Language

Which of the following is a feature of HDL?

• Describing large digital systems using schematics

• Describing digital circuits using a text-based language

• Manual logic synthesis

• Physical implementation

Which HDL is stricter in its syntax and typecasting?

• Verilog

• VHDL

• Assembly

• C

What is Verilog?

• An acronym

• A strict typecasting HDL

• A trade name

• A schematic-based language

Who filed the first patent on the integrated circuit?

• Robert Noyce

• Jack Kilby

• Gordon Moore

• Alan Turing

Who co-founded Intel Corporation?

• Jack Kilby

• Gordon Moore

• Robert Noyce

• John von Neumann

In what year was the first single-chip microprocessor introduced?

• 1965

• 1971

• 1983

• 1990

What is Moore’s Law?

• Logic gates double in number every year

• The number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years

• Integrated circuits shrink in size every year

• Circuit complexity decreases over time

When was VHDL first released?

• 1971

• 1983

• 1985

• 1990

Which organization standardized VHDL?

• Intel

• IEEE

• IBM

• Microsoft