This document provides an overview of VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language). It defines HDL as a language used to describe the functionality of digital circuits. It explains that VHDL is used for designing complex digital circuits since drawing them by hand is not scalable. The document then discusses the history, capabilities, and design flow of VHDL. It compares VHDL to C language and describes different modeling styles in VHDL including structural, dataflow, behavioral, and mixed modeling. Key design units in VHDL like entity, architecture, configuration, and packages are also summarized.