The sixth edition of the C# language specification allows for more openness and community participation in changes to the language, Microsoft said. Ecma International has approved the sixth edition of ...

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The IEEE today signed off on the IEEE 1850 PSL (property-specification-language) standard, which the organization says will help designers save verification time, effort, and cost while also improving ...

A technical paper titled “PEak: A Single Source of Truth for Hardware Design and Verification” was published by researchers at Stanford University. “Domain-specific languages for hardware can ...

Formal specification languages have been used mostly to prove mathematically that a program or module is correct, or to automatically construct a correct program. In both cases, a high-level ...

PSL is a formal notation for specification of electronic system behavior, compatible with multiple electronic system design languages, including IEEE Std 1076 (VHDL), IEEE Std 1354 (Verilog), IEEE Std ...

UML (Unified Modeling Language) is by far today's most common modeling language. Software engineers routinely use UML in firmware and real-time- and embedded-systems development, and more and more, ...

Although the PHP scripting language has been around since 1995 and is a staple of Web development, it does not actually have a formal language specification — just extensive user documentation. But ...