Re:Reverse-engineering FPGAs [video]
by anfilt on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:41AM
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It's actually kinda funny you mentioned designed without understanding FPGA development. VHDL predates FPGAs. Further, there are a lot of features that exist that are un-synthesizable. Some belong to the analog world. Some can't even be really even be used to build a real device.
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Don't get me wrong – VHDL is a terrible language for design and verification (just like Verilog). Some of those new high-level languages are actually better than VHDL and Verilog, but not sufficiently better to overcome the momentum of the old languages.
> VHDL predates FPGAs
I was using "FPGA design" as a placeholder for digital logic design in general, given that by far the most VHDL and Verilog is written for FPGAs today.