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VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) was a 1980s U.S. government program. The program's mission was to research and develop very high speed integrated circuits.

The United States Department of Defense launched the VHSIC program in 1980 as a joint tri-service (Army/Navy/Air Force) program. The program led to advances in integrated circuit materials, lithography, packaging, testing, and algorithms, and created numerous computer-aided design (CAD) tools. A well-known part of the program's contribution is VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language), a hardware description language (HDL). The program also redirected the military's interest in GaAs ICs back toward the commercial mainstream of CMOS circuits.[1][2]

More than $1 billion in total was spent for the VHSIC program for silicon integrated circuit technology development.[3]

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