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Re:Megaprocessor by minthd on Monday June 22, 2015 @07:01AM (#9757441)
MYHDL isn't compile-able(synthesizable) to hardware.

I know they teach Chisel, a higher level language , in berkley. Maybe it fits software engineers and would be fun to design cpu's with.

Re:Megaprocessor by jandecaluwe on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:45AM (#9763169)
Please. Of course it is, and that is made very clear on the home page. http://www.myhdl.org/
Re:Megaprocessor by pjc50 on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:29AM (#9757765)
Bah, in that case it shouldn't be calling itself an HDL! Chisel looks more appropriate.
Re:Megaprocessor by pogden on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:10AM (#9758014)
To be fair, it's Hardware Description Language, not Hardware Synthesis Language. HDLs are mostly tools to support V&V, it's just that synthesis is the most convenient way to ensure that an implementation is consistent with the HDL description.
Re:Megaprocessor by makomk on Monday June 22, 2015 @01:43PM (#9759928)
Yeah, I believe originally all the HDLs were intended for simulation of designs which were then implemented by hand. Neither Verilog nor VHDL was processor designed for synthesis, which is probably why it's so quirky.
Re:Megaprocessor by minthd on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:14AM (#9758038)
I checked again , and there's a subset of MyHDL which does support synthesis, but it's at such a low level it's not very different from VHDL/Verilog.

The whole MyHDL is mostly used for verification though.