In the early days of ESL, one of the rally cries was that both hardware and software engineers would finally use the same language and thus it would be possible to have a single group of engineers develop a system from concept to implementation without having to worry about what would eventually run on a [...]
It wasn’t so very long ago that the high-level synthesis vendors were arguing over the correct language to use. Should it be C, C++, SystemC or some other language, such as M? Their arguments ranged over several issues including which was more abstract, which was faster to write, simulate and debug, which one contained more [...]
It has been about 18 months since I was actively blogging on this site and it feels good to be back. In the last incarnation, I blogged on the Verification Vertigo feed. This time, I am changing the scope a little to blog about the emerging area of ESL. I intend to talk about languages, [...]
