On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:40:17PM -0600, Tom Hawkins wrote:
I started to define the format for FNF: the future netlist format of Confluence and InFormal.
FNF is a flat netlist that retains hierarchical scoping. The netlist is a directed graph of primitive RTL operations, called cells. Some basics:
What is RTL?
Register Transfer Level (RTL) is the most common abstraction level for digital design. Typical RTL building blocks include, bitwise logical operations, arithmetics, truth-tables, state-machines, and as the acronym implies, registers.
As for status, I have connected the Confluence frontend with the FNF backend. There are a few minor bugs, but I expect to release the CF+FNF version soon after the first of the year.
-Tom
