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

[Timothy Miller]

On 10/20/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> wrote:
>
> > 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.

I have not.  Academically, AI is my main area of research.  I have
friends who are in this area whom I talk with about this a lot.  They
would have done the literature searches.

>  >>  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
>