origin of the name VERILOG

[mag]

What is the origin of the name VERILOG? Is it an acronym or short-form
name of the original name of the Verilog HDL? For example VHDL stands
for VHSIC HDL, where VHSIC stands for Very High Speed Integrated
Circuit.

 

[Gabor]

mag wrote:

What is the origin of the name VERILOG? Is it an acronym or short-form
name of the original name of the Verilog HDL? For example VHDL stands
for VHSIC HDL, where VHSIC stands for Very High Speed Integrated Circuit.

Verilog is not an acronym. Wikipedia says it was invented by Phil
Moorby and Prabhu Goel as a logic simulation language, so most likely
the derivation comes from VERIfication of LOGic, or some such.

VHDL was an outshoot of DARPA which is all about acronyms as attested
by VHDL itself, which as you pointed out is a nested acronym.

By the way, neither language was originally used for logic synthesis.

-- Gabor