On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 03 June 2008 10:04:24 Pascal Giard wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: [...] >> >> > and many custom "synthesis" tools for abstract langauges "compile" to >> > VHDL. >> >> FWIW, with Forté Cynthesizer in mind, or to Verilog... > > I've actually toyed with this idea for some time (but will realistically > probably never have time to implement it): > > 1) Modify GHDL to compile to LLVM. > 2) Modify Icarus Verilog to compile to LLVM. > 3) Create a "VHDL" LLVM backend target. > 4) Create a "Verilog" LLVM backend target. > > Then you could actually compile VHDL into Verilog and vice-versa (and do > other crazy things with other languages and targets). Of course, its > only "simple" in theory, LLVM isn't a great parallel IIR, etc, etc. But, > hey, it's a good dream. Maybe someday. ;)
It's not an easy job... Following comments i've given them, talking with the guys of Forté (at DVCon08), they told me how of a hard time they have generating good Verilog from SystemC models. My comments were about a implementation comparison i made for a Master class were I've compared generated Verilog from a SystemC model with a hand-written VHDL model. It came with no surprise that my hand-written VHDL was much more efficient¹ but i was expecting it to be closer. For what it's worth they've told me that they've improved code generation for the upcoming release but i haven't taken the time to test. Anyway, before going to much out of scope... I'd be interested in the first proposal... But i don't have much time to dedicate to it so i can't "lead" that project either. I'd gladly contribute tho. -Pascal ¹ 2 times less space, 4 times faster. -- Homepage (http://organact.mine.nu) Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org) LACIME: École de technologie supérieure (http://lacime.etsmtl.ca) _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list Ghdl-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
