VHSIC was launched 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.[2][3]
More than $1 billion in total was spent for the VHSIC program for silicon integrated circuit technology development.[4]
A DARPA project which ran concurrently, the VLSI Project, having begun two years earlier in 1978, contributed BSD Unix, the RISC processor, the MOSIS research design fab, and greatly furthered the Mead and Conway revolution in VLSI design automation. By contrast, the VHSIC program was comparatively less cost-effective for the funds invested over a contemporaneous time frame, though the projects had different final objectives and are not entirely comparable for that reason.
By the time the program ended in 1990, commercial processors were far outperforming what the Pentagon's program had produced; however, it did manage to subsidize US semiconductor equipment manufacturing, stimulating an industry that shipped much of its product abroad (mainly to Asia).[5]
Referencesedit
^Alic, John A.; Brooks, Harvey; Branscomb, Lewis M. (1992). Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World. Harvard Business School Press. p. 269—270.
^David J. Creasey (1985). Advanced Signal Processing. IEE Telecommunications Series. ISBN0-86341-037-5.
^John B. Shoven (1988). Government Policy Towards Industry in the United States and Japan. Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-33325-3.
^U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Microelectronics Research and Development – A Background Paper, OTA-B P-C IT-40, pp. 21–22 (Washington , DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 1986).
^Bryen, Stephen (2022-08-25). "Russia's long-time chips failure coming home to roost". Asia Times. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
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