Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

VHDL
     
        Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware
        Description Language.  A large high-level {VLSI} design
        language with Ada-like syntax.  The DoD standard for hardware
        description, now standardised as IEEE 1076.
     
        ["VHSIC Hardware Description Language", M.R. Shahdad et al,
        IEEE Computer 18(2):94-103 (Feb 1985)].