Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language
by jayd16 on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @11:36AM
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Don't most use something things like SPICE and Verilog? The reason a schematic comes into play with because there are physical and spacial constraints in hardware implementation. However, that's not at the logical level. Pretty sure you don't use any visual language for FPGAs.
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Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language
by nickpsecurity on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:07PM
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"Pretty sure you don't use any visual language for FPGAs."
There are physical and spatial constraints in efficient implementation on FPGA's. Although I don't use them, I saw plenty of examples in my research of people looking at them visually and changing representations to make them more compact or something. Modifying the physical layout outperformed whatever the initial synthesis was.
Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language
by krupan on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:27PM
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Parent said nobody uses a visual language for FPGA's, and parent is mostly right (some do use LabView, legend has it).
Yes, visual tools for manipulating physical aspects of the design are used, but there is little to no abstraction there like a language provides.
Re:Funciton – A graphical programming language
by crispyambulance on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @12:26PM
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LabVIEW can also target FPGA's. This capability has been around for ~10 years now. Interestingly, LabVIEW and FPGA targets get along quite well, the structure of LabVIEW programs lend themselves to being mapped to an FPGA's HDL (see http://www.ni.com/fpga/)