(Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "viz-ick." Ultra-high-speed chips employing LSI and VLSI technologies. The term comes from the name of the program launched by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1980 to advance digital IC technology.
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VHSIC was a 1980s U.S. government program to develop very-high-speed integrated circuits.
The United States Department of Defense launched the VHSIC project in 1980 as a joint tri-service (Army/Navy/Air Force) project. The project led to advances in integrated circuit materials, lithography, packaging, testing, and algorithms, and created numerous computer-aided design tools. A well-known part of the project's contribution is VHDL, a hardware description language. The program also redirected the military's interest in GaAs ICs back toward the commercial mainstream of CMOS circuits.[1][2]
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