From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2005-01@t-domaingrabbing.de>
Subject: Re: Is there a translator from SPARK Ada to VHDL?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:26:49 +0000
Date: 2005-01-21T07:26:49+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2240790.sIaF6RCxbY@jellix.jlfencey.com> (raw)
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Stephen Leake wrote:
> VHDL has a similar syntax to Ada, but it is really a different
> language; the semantics are oriented towards parallel processing of
> many small gates, as opposed to serial processing of one main
> processor.
A while ago I thought the same, but this seems to have changed.
> You need a VHDL compiler that targets your FPGA. Spark does not; it
> only targets mainstream computer chips.
<URI:http://www.praxis-his.com/sparkada/publications.asp#hardware>
According to the paper there, it somehow does. :-)
Vinzent.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-20 23:44 Is there a translator from SPARK Ada to VHDL? Jim
2005-01-21 4:42 ` Stephen Leake
2005-01-21 7:26 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler [this message]
2005-01-21 15:25 ` Peter Amey
2005-02-27 15:50 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2005-01-21 6:06 ` Upkeep
2005-01-23 11:42 ` Suslik
2005-02-10 18:03 ` Jim
2005-02-27 15:49 ` Paul Colin Gloster
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