A register transfer language is a system for expressing in symbolic form the microoperation sequences among the registers of a digital module.
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Separate work done about 1979 at the University of Kaiserslautern produced a language called KARL ( " KAiserslautern Register Transfer Language " ), which included design calculus language features supporting VLSI chip floorplanning and structured hardware design.
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In computer science, "'register transfer language "'( "'RTL "') is a kind of intermediate representation ( IR ) that is very close to assembly language, such as that which is used in a compiler.