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- 1 2 3 "Phil Moorby - 2005 Phil Kaufman Award Honoree " Archived 2009-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ SystemVerilog for Design: A Guide to Using SystemVerilog for Hardware Design and Modeling, Stuart Sutherland, Simon Davidmann, Peter Flake, Springer, 2004, p. 358
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