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by adwn
403 days ago
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I'll take a closer look later, and I welcome anything that tries to bring concepts from modern programming languages to hardware design. But. The focus on "CPU" examples on the landing page (A 3 stage CPU supporting Add, Sub, Set and Jump, "You can easily build an ALU") is immediately discouraging. I implement and verify FPGA designs for a living, and the vast, vast majority of my work is nothing like designing a CPU. So my fear is that this new hardware description language hasn't been created by a veteran who has many years of experience in using HDLs and therefore knows what and where the real pain points are, but by someone who's ultimately a software developer – even a highly skilled and motivated software developer – and who has never designed, implemented, and verified a large FPGA design. And skilled, motivated software developers without a lot of domain-specific experience tend to solve the wrong problems. I would be happy to be proven wrong, though. |
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That's a good reminder that I need to update the example on the website, I must have written that example almost 3 years ago at this point :)
For more up to date motivation, my talk from LatchUp last year is probably the best one I have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EdOHbY2dlg&t=277s
> So my fear is that this new hardware description language hasn't been created by a veteran who has many years of experience in using HDLs
That's annoyingly quite close to the truth :D But I think I have enough experience now to not be completely stumbling around in the dark