Re:Silice: A language for hardcoding Algorithms into FPGA ha...
by kingosticks on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:29AM
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> how do you generate recursive designs in vhdl? e.g. reduction trees?
>> preprocessing/templating
> so your tool (vhdl/verilog) requires using another tool (perl/tcl/python) to be productive and you think that's not a failing of the (first) tool?
In my opinion yes it does, and yes that is a failing. But what I was saying is, that alone is not worth the large cost of moving to something new. I was asking if Slice could offer anything more to justify that large cost.
>> preprocessing/templating
> so your tool (vhdl/verilog) requires using another tool (perl/tcl/python) to be productive and you think that's not a failing of the (first) tool?
In my opinion yes it does, and yes that is a failing. But what I was saying is, that alone is not worth the large cost of moving to something new. I was asking if Slice could offer anything more to justify that large cost.