On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:17:48AM -0700, Bob La Quey wrote:
VLSI Design Tools In 500 lines of colorForth these tools provide everything required to design a chip. They are derived from an earlier version called OKAD that successfully generated many versions of Forth microprocessor chips. http://www.colorforth.com/vlsi.html
Not much in chip design these days is done at the gate level. I would describe his tools as a piece of the very last stage of a chip design suite. Desiging that way is kind of like writing in assembly (actually, it's kind of like programming in Forth, hmm). Yes, it's possible, but not very pleasant or productive. Charles Moore may be brilliant but he doesn't seem to be able to think outside of his very tiny little box. He thinks operating systems are antequated and should go away (as in, we should all just be running forth systems directly on modern hardware). He just doesn't have a very realistic view of the world. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
