[K42-discussion] C-To-FPGA

[William DUCK]

Hello,

Timothy Miller wrote :

>This is a long-term sort of project idea for us.  The holy grail would
>be to convert arbitrary C or Fortran code into FPGA logic.  (This
>would be especially good for Cray computers that arrange Opterons with
>Xilinx FPGAs.)  A more realistic goal, however, would be to convert a
>restricted subset of C into gates.

Here is some cutting edge stuff in the field :


Publications :

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~najjar/TCHA-folder/Papers/Gokhale_trident.pdf

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~najjar/papers/2006/FPL2006_IR.pdf

http://gladiator.ncsa.uiuc.edu/PDFs/rssi06/presentations/12_Justin_Tripp.pdf

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~najjar/TCHA-folder/Presentations/Maya-compiler.pdf

http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~kastner/ece253/reader/tripp02.pdf


Compilers :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/trident

http://llvm.org/ ( front-end )

http://splish.ee.byu.edu/ ( back-end )

http://www.rasr.lanl.gov/StreamsC/index.php ( The BYU Sea Cucumber is now 
JHDL ) => legacy link

Best Regards,

			Will