Hardware description languages in Canada

In Canada, interest in hardware description languages (HDLs) has been mainly centered in the universities, and their principal use has been to help the teaching of computer architecture courses. Working compiler/simulator installations are located at Waterloo, Ecole Polytechnique (Montreal), Toronto, and New Brunswick; in each case the system is for Professor Chu´s CDL running on IBM/360. Other universities with different computers such as Universite de Montreal, SGWU, and Carleton lack simulators but still make use of HDLs as descriptive vehicles in their courses.