Smalltalk support for Verilog

> Hi
>
>
> After 20 years of developing software in Smalltalk, not only in banking
> apps, but even for heat control systems, I have started thinking about
> programming FPGA for Digital Signal Processing (DSP). After studying
> Verilog as a base language for FPGA design, I have got the impression,
> that this hardware description language is on a very assembler like
> level, when compared with software languages. There is a lot of detail,
> a lot of explicit numbers (what is 42???). I have found designs with
> hundreds (!!!) of entries in one single case statement. And all cases
> were just numbers!
>
> Since Smalltalk is the most abstract language that I know of, I thought,
> that it might be somewhere an idea about using Smalltalk for FPGA
> design. Questioning Google, one does not get relevant results.
>
> Does anyone know any efforts in this direction?
>
> Regards
> Alfred Wullschleger
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> Hi
>
>
> After 20 years of developing software in Smalltalk, not only in banking
> apps, but even for heat control systems, I have started thinking about
> programming FPGA for Digital Signal Processing (DSP). After studying
> Verilog as a base language for FPGA design, I have got the impression,
> that this hardware description language is on a very assembler like
> level, when compared with software languages. There is a lot of detail,
> a lot of explicit numbers (what is 42???). I have found designs with
> hundreds (!!!) of entries in one single case statement. And all cases
> were just numbers!
>
> Since Smalltalk is the most abstract language that I know of, I thought,
> that it might be somewhere an idea about using Smalltalk for FPGA
> design. Questioning Google, one does not get relevant results.
>
> Does anyone know any efforts in this direction?
>
> Regards
> Alfred Wullschleger