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 Italian Wikipedia has 17.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 6 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Hardware description language", its content was written by 12 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 554 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 1057 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #10116 in April 2019
• Global: #17548 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #269454 in September 2020
• Global: #91514 in April 2015

There are 26 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, 2025 (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		38.7588
2	English (en) Hardware description language		38.5442
3	Estonian (et) Riistvarakirjelduskeel		35.8648
4	Chinese (zh) 硬件描述语言		31.9424
5	Ukrainian (uk) Мови опису апаратури		28.7264
6	Dutch (nl) Hardwarebeschrijvingstaal		27.7882
7	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア記述言語		23.9235
8	Greek (el) Γλώσσα περιγραφής υλικού		22.3014
9	Persian (fa) زبان توصیف سخت‌افزار		21.7921
10	Arabic (ar) لغة توصيف العتاد		18.6064

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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		1 707 160
2	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア記述言語		401 639
3	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de descripción de hardware		173 123
4	German (de) Hardwarebeschreibungssprache		111 019
5	Chinese (zh) 硬件描述语言		102 515
6	Russian (ru) Язык описания аппаратуры		100 047
7	French (fr) Langage de description de matériel		62 615
8	Polish (pl) Hardware Description Language		59 198
9	Korean (ko) 하드웨어 기술 언어		52 761
10	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem de descrição de hardware		46 796

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hardware description language		5 606
2	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア記述言語		526
3	Russian (ru) Язык описания аппаратуры		397
4	Chinese (zh) 硬件描述语言		383
5	German (de) Hardwarebeschreibungssprache		246
6	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de descripción de hardware		198
7	French (fr) Langage de description de matériel		149
8	Korean (ko) 하드웨어 기술 언어		91
9	Italian (it) Hardware description language		64
10	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem de descrição de hardware		63

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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		198
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		37
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		15
9	Hindi (hi) हार्डवेयर वर्णन की भाषा		13
10	Italian (it) Hardware description language		12

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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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Γλώσσα περιγραφής υλικού		1
2	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem de descrição de hardware		1
3	Serbian (sr) Jezik za opis hardvera		1
4	Arabic (ar) لغة توصيف العتاد		0
5	Catalan (ca) Llenguatge de descripció de maquinari		0
6	German (de) Hardwarebeschreibungssprache		0
7	English (en) Hardware description language		0
8	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de descripción de hardware		0
9	Estonian (et) Riistvarakirjelduskeel		0
10	Persian (fa) زبان توصیف سخت‌افزار		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		290
2	Chinese (zh) 硬件描述语言		115
3	Japanese (ja) ハードウェア記述言語		101
4	German (de) Hardwarebeschreibungssprache		89
5	Arabic (ar) لغة توصيف العتاد		61
6	French (fr) Langage de description de matériel		57
7	Ukrainian (uk) Мови опису апаратури		53
8	Russian (ru) Язык описания аппаратуры		35
9	Catalan (ca) Llenguatge de descripció de maquinari		31
10	Spanish (es) Lenguaje de descripción de hardware		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
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

Italian: #269454 09.2020

Global: #91514 04.2015

Best Rank

Italian: #10116 04.2019

Global: #17548 02.2013

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