> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Jean-Christophe Le Lann > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:19 > To: GHDL discuss list > Subject: Re: [Ghdl-discuss] Using GHDL to compile to ARM archtecture > > Paulo Costa a écrit : > > Unfortunaly, I really can't afford an FPGA. Not even a "cheap" one. > ok. However, maybe you could be interested to have a look (for the > future) at Armadeus project in France : > http://www.armadeus.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page > On the same board, you get a FPGA (Spartan) and a ARM > processor, running Linux. > > Even though I know an FPGA is completely different from a > CPU, I was > > planning to use it for some quite silly things, and if I could run > > them as a simulation, that would probably be acceptable. > I personally find your idea interesting ! Replacing SW > blocks by HW accelerators is common, but the opposite is > quite rare ! But it represents much much work I think with
Actually this is done when you need a pin level specification, but the draft design can be quickly designed using complex systems (like perl and databases, openssl, etc.) > poor performances at the end, if you directly embedd an > event-driven VHDL simulator. Keep us informed ! > That may have provided us with a intermediate test of our design using the same test cases. > Note that it is not so far from what the community of > so-called "synchronous languages" (used in aeronautics) tend > to do, with a different approach : from specification > captured in dedicated languages inspired by synchronous > circuits (hence their names), their compilers are capable of > generating mono-threaded embedded C code (plus some formally > proofs on some properties). The idea is to statically find > the correct ordering between "components", in order to remove > the scheduler. > Maybe you have already heard about Esterel or Lustre...If you > are interested, you can have a look at > http://www.irisa.fr/distribcom/benveniste/pub/synch_ProcIEEE_2002.pdf > > Happy new year to GHDL list ! > Jean-Christophe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ghdl-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
