Hardware description language

Hardware description language - specialized computer language used to describe the structure and behavior of electronic circuits, and most commonly, digital logic circuits. Article “Hardware description language” in English Wikipedia has 38.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 28 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.8 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Hardware description language” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Hardware description language”, its content was written by 204 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 572 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 280 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1042 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12810 in April 2004
• Global: #17561 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #90778 in April 2015
• Global: #92651 in April 2015

There are 27 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Hardwarebeschreibungssprache		38.5549
2	English (en) Hardware description language		38.5405
3	Estonian (et) Riistvarakirjelduskeel		34.52
4	Chinese (zh) 硬件描述语言		31.8614
5	Dutch (nl) Hardwarebeschrijvingstaal		27.6347
6	Ukrainian (uk) Мови опису апаратури		26.807
7	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア記述言語		23.7227
8	Greek (el) Γλώσσα περιγραφής υλικού		22.4689
9	Persian (fa) زبان توصیف سخت‌افزار		21.6511
10	Arabic (ar) لغة توصيف العتاد		18.5331

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Hardware description language" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hardware description language		1 749 325
2	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア記述言語		408 530
3	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de descripción de hardware		175 223
4	German (de) Hardwarebeschreibungssprache		113 502
5	Chinese (zh) 硬件描述语言		106 035
6	Russian (ru) Язык описания аппаратуры		105 387
7	French (fr) Langage de description de matériel		64 619
8	Polish (pl) Hardware Description Language		60 118
9	Korean (ko) 하드웨어 기술 언어		53 479
10	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem de descrição de hardware		47 438

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Hardware description language" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hardware description language		2 899
2	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア記述言語		412
3	German (de) Hardwarebeschreibungssprache		205
4	Chinese (zh) 硬件描述语言		196
5	Russian (ru) Язык описания аппаратуры		189
6	French (fr) Langage de description de matériel		102
7	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de descripción de hardware		94
8	Polish (pl) Hardware Description Language		57
9	Italian (it) Hardware description language		51
10	Persian (fa) زبان توصیف سخت‌افزار		37

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Hardware description language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hardware description language		204
2	German (de) Hardwarebeschreibungssprache		59
3	French (fr) Langage de description de matériel		41
4	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア記述言語		40
5	Dutch (nl) Hardwarebeschrijvingstaal		29
6	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de descripción de hardware		22
7	Polish (pl) Hardware Description Language		21
8	Turkish (tr) Donanım tanımlama dili		16
9	Hindi (hi) हार्डवेयर वर्णन की भाषा		13
10	Italian (it) Hardware description language		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Hardware description language" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) שפת תיאור חומרה		2
2	English (en) Hardware description language		1
3	Italian (it) Hardware description language		1
4	Thai (th) ภาษาบรรยายฮาร์ดแวร์		1
5	Chinese (zh) 硬件描述语言		1
6	Arabic (ar) لغة توصيف العتاد		0
7	Catalan (ca) Llenguatge de descripció de maquinari		0
8	German (de) Hardwarebeschreibungssprache		0
9	Greek (el) Γλώσσα περιγραφής υλικού		0
10	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de descripción de hardware		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Hardware description language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Hardware description language		280
2	Chinese (zh) 硬件描述语言		121
3	German (de) Hardwarebeschreibungssprache		89
4	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア記述言語		88
5	Arabic (ar) لغة توصيف العتاد		62
6	Ukrainian (uk) Мови опису апаратури		55
7	French (fr) Langage de description de matériel		51
8	Korean (ko) 하드웨어 기술 언어		40
9	Russian (ru) Язык описания аппаратуры		33
10	Catalan (ca) Llenguatge de descripció de maquinari		31

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لغة توصيف العتاد
ca	Catalan Llenguatge de descripció de maquinari
de	German Hardwarebeschreibungssprache
el	Greek Γλώσσα περιγραφής υλικού
en	English Hardware description language
es	Spanish Lenguaje de descripción de hardware
et	Estonian Riistvarakirjelduskeel
fa	Persian زبان توصیف سخت‌افزار
fi	Finnish Laitteistokuvauskieli
fr	French Langage de description de matériel
he	Hebrew שפת תיאור חומרה
hi	Hindi हार्डवेयर वर्णन की भाषा
it	Italian Hardware description language
ja	Japanese ハードウェア記述言語
ko	Korean 하드웨어 기술 언어
ms	Malay Bahasa takrifan perkakasan
nl	Dutch Hardwarebeschrijvingstaal
pl	Polish Hardware Description Language
pt	Portuguese Linguagem de descrição de hardware
ru	Russian Язык описания аппаратуры
sr	Serbian Jezik za opis hardvera
sv	Swedish Hårdvarubeskrivande språk
th	Thai ภาษาบรรยายฮาร์ดแวร์
tr	Turkish Donanım tanımlama dili
uk	Ukrainian Мови опису апаратури
vi	Vietnamese Ngôn ngữ mô tả phần cứng
zh	Chinese 硬件描述语言

Best Rank

English: #90778 04.2015

Global: #92651 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #12810 04.2004

Global: #17561 02.2013

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