Miles Gazic wrote: >>> For software to be truly expert friendly, it must use languages >>> that are meaningful in the application domain, and lots of >>> extendability. To a circuit designer, that is not C, Scheme, >>> M4, or XML. >> The ones I know circuit designers use are verilog, perl and python. >> and then there are the many Matlab programmers... >> >> Are any of those what you're thinking of Al? > > Verilog or VHDL are the only languages that I know of that are > directly used in hardware design, and IMO neither is suited for > writing scripts on PCs. Since no suitable languages are commonly used > in hardware development (except by people who also write software), I > don't think there's a clear choice.
How about the code intensive hardware system developers that start a project with FPGA then migrate it to ASIC? What language do they use -- c++? John Griessen -- Ecosensory Austin TX _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
