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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