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kctang wrote:
> Dear all,
> Cut and Paste C codes, you can have your hardware!

Oh please....

>   http://www.jrs.com/legac.htm
is not intended to create synthesisable code;
 
>   http://www.frontierd.com/art.htm
builds specialised hardware architectures for DSP and other
datapath designs, and does a terrific job of allowing the hardware-
aware designer to explore architecture options quickly, but needs 
extensive hints about timing requirements;
 
>   http://www.cleveldesign.com/products/index.html
does a pretty good job of turning C control structures
into a state machine that can be synthesised;

but I am delighted to say (because my job may depend on it
for the next year or two at least) that we are nowhere near
the stage when code written by some hardware-know-nothing
C programmer can be turned into effective hardware without
human intervention.

Remember Jason? We must strap ourselves to the mast so that we
can hear these Siren-songs without being lured on to the rocks.

Jonathan Bromley
-- 
whose golden fleece is just another word for what the taxman
does to him (:-<)