Indeed, one might say it's more of a mark up decription of what you would like to see the hardware been rather than a S/W program to run on the H/W. Sounds so pedantic doesn't it ;-)JA
On Thursday, 9 January 2020, 22:11:31 GMT, Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: See! I said I knew nothing! ;-) On 9 January 2020 16:29:50 GMT, Peter Graf via Ql-Users <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: >Norman Dunbar via Ql-Users wrote: >> I get that it's a software description of some hardware. > >Not software. It is simply a hardware description, and the result is >pure hardware, i.e. flipflops, gates, wires. You can as well describe >he >same hardware in a schematic rather than text. > >It is important to understand that no emulation is involved and there >is >no difference to other logic chips, except that an FPGA can be >re-configured. Like GALs, just more complex. > >From the same hardware description, is is also possible to manufacture >customized chips, called ASICs, which have a fixed logic. >_______________________________________________ >QL-Users Mailing List -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List