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Re:Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full... by sliverstorm on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @10:17PM (#3268593)
"difficult" does not even begin to encompass the half of it. It is really cool in theory, but in reality a ridiculously difficult challenge that existing tools are in no way whatsoever up for.
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Re:Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full... by thesz on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @08:13AM (#3269889)
Take a look at the Balsa design system: http://apt.cs.man.ac.uk/projects/tools/balsa/

My colleague uses it for research purposes and he said that it is pretty mature.

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Re:Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full... by sliverstorm on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:15PM (#3270978)
I suspect if the only issue was translating architecture to logic, we'd be doing it already
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