[K42-discussion] [Fastos] C-To-FPGA

[Ronald G Minnich]

> 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.)

That Cray product is dead. "arbitrary C or fortran" is a holy grail, has 
been tried many times, I hope you have done a literature search. It may 
be a holy grail, that does not mean it is a good idea.

 >>  A more realistic goal, however, would be to convert a
>>restricted subset of C into gates.

ditto. literature search. start ca. 1990, with the dbC to fpga compiler 
work.

ron