Re: programming with VHDL, was Looking for a fast C++ parser

This could be a tangential thought. I was wondering if hardware
description language like VHDL can be used to write software. VHDL
language is typed for explicit parallelism and the it has the features
like function/operator overloading, defining/using struct's. There are
lots of IPs available in VHDL to do DSP kind of computation like
FFT/DFT that can be directly used while writting your own software
(software IPs?). Of course there would be a need to *extend* the
language and to write a compiler to convert VHDL into object code, but
it should be possible. There are open source software like verilator
that converts VHDL into a c language (primarily for speeding up the
cycle accurate simulation)


Is there any pointers to similar idea being pursued by somewhere? OR,
are there any critical studies done to invalidate this idea?


-Amit
[It might, but I don't see what this has to do with syntax highlighting. -John]

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