The Challenges of Synthesizing Hardware from C-Like Languages

  • Authors:
  • Stephen A. Edwards

  • Affiliations:
  • Columbia University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Design & Test
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This article presents one side of an ongoing debate on the appropriateness of C-like languages as hardware description languages. The article examines various features of C and their mapping to hardware, and makes a cogent argument that vanilla C is not the right language for hardware description if synthesis is the goal.