Re: Is there a translator from SPARK Ada to VHDL?

[Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2005, 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.

[..]"

Behavorial VHDL and the equivalent of representation clauses do resemble 
Ada, but synthesizable VHDL (as opposed to VHDL for simulators -- one of 
the funny things about VHDL and Verilog, so much work put into a supposed 
simulation without tool support for reification) is not parallel.