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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2005-01@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: Is there a translator from SPARK Ada to VHDL?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:26:49 +0000
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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.