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Re: Could somebody use SCSH, Sheme, or Lisp to create the "Lispm" archit

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Subject: Re: Could somebody use SCSH, Sheme, or Lisp to create the "Lispm" architecture.
From: Jouni Matti Juhani Osmala <josmala@nimaatre.hut.fi>
Date: 05 Apr 2003 14:48:15 +0300
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Petter Gustad <newsmailcomp4@gustad.com> writes:

> Ole Myren Rohne <ole.rohne@fys.uio.no> writes:
> 
> > Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > Once you have chosen your Hardware Design Language (VHDL, Verilog or
> > > one you have implemented from scratch in CL) you can start writing the
> > > "Symbolics type CPU".
> > 
> > That's cheating! He needs to start defining a lisp-based HDL;-)
> 
> Well, you could write it in EDIF, which is Lisp :-)

Well, I personally like lisp, and dislike VHDL, can EDIF be recommended as a 
general purpose HDL?
How widely its used? Is it supported by most foundries?
Is there something that is cheap enough for student to import edif files to 
FPGA:s.


Jouni Osmala
Helsinki University of Technology
Electrical Engineering.

ps. They only teach us VHDL. (And if there is something better I'd love to 
learn it.)

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