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Re:AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx by woofie11 on Friday October 09, 2020 @06:09AM (#24728433)
VHDL / Verilog is very different, but not necessarily harder per-se. It's just people spend 4 years learning "normal" programming, and at best have a one-semester course which uses VHDL.

But yes, a software stack would help.

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Re:AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx by tails4e on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:46AM (#24738043)
The issue I see is they are slow to compile. I write them daily and it's not that hard to lean when you grok the parallel nature, but generating the HW usually takes at least 10 to 30 mins for a medium sized block, that is a bit of a barrier to entry.
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Re:AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx by coreblocks on Saturday October 10, 2020 @02:40AM (#24737080)
As an FPGA dev, I tend to think of HDLs akin to HTML than “code”. It’s just a DSL to describe a graph. Actually pretty similar to how tensorflow is designed.
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Re:AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx by andy_ppp on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:11PM (#24741125)
Yes would expect units of execution and different types of signal processing to come a pre-built blobs.
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