system C - streams C

[ram]

Hi Group,
Lately there is a lot of talk about System C, is Xilinx or Altera
planning to consider System C. I heard Forge tool from Xilinx is meant
for Java programmers to do hardware designs, is xilinx/altera coming
up with thier own tool set for doing design with C/C++.
having said that I also want to know how complicated/easy it gets to
design systems completely using C/C++ and letting the software takes
care of diving the system into hardware modules and software programs.
Streams C based product from Impulse Tech supports both Xilinx/altera
soft processor cores,have anyone designed system with that.

I started working with Virtex2pro ( thats my introduction into the
world of FPGAs and embedded systems ) for over a year and now
cosidering to start exploring ways to configure FPGAs. Actually I am a
student doing my master's so I would like to think about how the
growth will be on designing systems with C/C++ - its obvious using
high level languages makes life much easier but not sure abt the
difficulties
your suggestions, criticism are all welcome

Regards

Ram

 

[Simon Peacock]

The main problem with C is that it is an 'unconstrained type' language.
Java is a better solution as I believe it locks types and forces type
conversion. If you think it doesn't matter.. remember hardware executes in
parallel... so try debugging it!

Simon


"ram" <ramntn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hi Group,
Lately there is a lot of talk about System C, is Xilinx or Altera
planning to consider System C. I heard Forge tool from Xilinx is meant
for Java programmers to do hardware designs, is xilinx/altera coming
up with thier own tool set for doing design with C/C++.
having said that I also want to know how complicated/easy it gets to
design systems completely using C/C++ and letting the software takes
care of diving the system into hardware modules and software programs.
Streams C based product from Impulse Tech supports both Xilinx/altera
soft processor cores,have anyone designed system with that.

I started working with Virtex2pro ( thats my introduction into the
world of FPGAs and embedded systems ) for over a year and now
cosidering to start exploring ways to configure FPGAs. Actually I am a
student doing my master's so I would like to think about how the
growth will be on designing systems with C/C++ - its obvious using
high level languages makes life much easier but not sure abt the
difficulties
your suggestions, criticism are all welcome

Regards

Ram