Invented by Gateway Design Automation in 1987 Donated to OVI in 1990 Donated to IEEE in 1993 IEEE 1364-1995 standardized in 1995 De facto standardization of Verilog-XL 1.6 IEEE 1364-2001 standardized in 2001 Top five features requested by users at DAC’1995 to make Verilog a better design language. IEEE 1364 Verilog has 16 years of momentum as a design language