sentences:  It also allows for the synthesis of an HDL description into a netlist (a specification of physical electronic components and how they are connected together), which can then be placed and routed to produce the set of masks used to create an integrated circuit.A hardware description language looks much like a programming language such as C or ALGOL; it is a textual description consisting of expressions, statements and control structures.One important difference between most programming languages and HDLs is that HDLs explicitly include the notion of time.