Re: [ANNOUNCE] MyHDL 0.5 released

2006-01-22 Thread Jan Decaluwe
Michael wrote: Practical examples are great, I'd seen that you'd introduced conversion to verilog some time back, but it wasn't clear how much was synthesisable. I'll try to clarify. Hardware synthesis is a rather closed technology, with several competing, expensive tools and relatively few

Re: [ANNOUNCE] MyHDL 0.5 released

2006-01-21 Thread Michael
Jan Decaluwe wrote: Michael wrote: ... * http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.myhdl/19/match=mu0 One question I've got, mainly because it strikes me as very intriguing is do you know if the MU0 processor as described is synthesisable or have a feeling as to how much work would be

Re: [ANNOUNCE] MyHDL 0.5 released

2006-01-20 Thread Jan Decaluwe
Michael wrote: Jan Decaluwe wrote: I'm pleased to announce the release of MyHDL 0.5. MyHDL is an open-source package for using Python as a hardware description and verification language. Moreover, it can convert a design to Verilog. Thus, MyHDL provides a complete path from Python to

Re: MyHDL 0.5 released

2006-01-20 Thread Randall Parker
Jan, What do you see as the main advantage for using MyHDL rather than VHDL for coding up a chip design? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MyHDL 0.5 released

2006-01-20 Thread Jan Decaluwe
Randall Parker wrote: Jan, What do you see as the main advantage for using MyHDL rather than VHDL for coding up a chip design? The fact that MyHDL is technically just another Python application. So it makes all typical Python advantages available to hardware designers. No need to discuss

Re: [ANNOUNCE] MyHDL 0.5 released

2006-01-19 Thread Michael
Jan Decaluwe wrote: I'm pleased to announce the release of MyHDL 0.5. MyHDL is an open-source package for using Python as a hardware description and verification language. Moreover, it can convert a design to Verilog. Thus, MyHDL provides a complete path from Python to silicon. Jan, I'm