RE: [oc] C to HDL? Didn't realise the situation was that bad

["Paul McFeeters" <paul.mcfeeters@ntlworld.com>]

Jecel,

I think you've missed the original point of doing a C to HDL translator.
We are not trying to make a super-great new HDL, the whole aim is to
allow existing C/C++ programmers to (with a couple of small modifications)
automatically translate their existing programs and skill in writing
those programs into something that can be used in hardware projects.
I myself have almost a decade of profession C/C++ programming and can
code things in C/C++ faster than I can tell people the ideas for it.
Most programmers are so hard pushed on deadlines that sitting down to
learn another language is just too off-putting for them. Getting up to
speed on a new language can take months which costs the company or the
individual money.

My excuse is I'm lazy, I decided that the few days to write the basic
version of a C++ to Verilog translator was easier than weeks of trying
to learn a new language. So far I've been right. Plus I now have some
American firm asking for my resume! Crazy world egh, whatever next?

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cores@opencores.org [mailto:owner-cores@opencores.org]On
> Behalf Of Jecel Assumpcao Jr
> Sent: 15 December 2001 21:27
> To: cores@opencores.org
> Subject: Re: [oc] C to HDL? Didn't realise the situation was that bad
> 
> 
> > > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 jdalton@bigfoot.com.au wrote:
> > > > I've never really understood why HDLs
> > > > (VHDL, Verilog, SystemC, ...) get treated
> > > > as 'special' languages.  They have their own
> > > > simulators, generators, synthesisers and
> > > > so on.
> 
> On aspect that others haven't mentioned yet is that C (and most other 
> programming languages) were designed as an abstraction of a Von Neumann 
> computer. That means we are assuming a single thread of control.
> 
> Hardware is rarely like that - you typically have many things going on 
> in parallel. A language like Occam (mostly used to program Inmos 
> Transputers, but it was also available on the PC) would make a much 
> better HDL.
> 
> -- Jecel
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