Motivation
Due to the exploding complexity of digital electronic circuits since the 1970s, partly due to Moore's law in semiconductors, circuit designers needed digital logic descriptions to be done at a high level without specifics to a particular electronic technology, i.e. CMOS, BJT etc. Hence a process flow stemming from data flow model with timing information, called the register-transfer level (RTL) was chosen and implemented via HDL.
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