VHSIC was a United States Department of Defense program aimed at advancing integrated circuit materials and fabrication to achieve higher switching speeds for military applications. The program directly led to the creation of VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language), which remains a foundational tool for designing digital logic.
Heard on the job
The legacy radar processor uses old VHSIC components that we can no longer source.
Also heard as
- very high speed integrated circuit