Re: gEDA-user: iverilog & PALs?

[Stephen Williams <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:54:51AM -0800, Stephen Williams wrote:
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>> The right answer is to have someone take on the task of getting
>> ipal modernized and finished. We need a volunteer.
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> Can you give some guage of how big or hard that task is?  Is there any
> sort of outline of what would need to be done to accomplish that?
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My estimation is that a reasonably skilled C programmer with
basic digital design skills (in order to understand what is
being done) should have no special difficulties with the ipal
code that is there.

It probably doesn't need much work to be brought current with
the 0.8 branch of Iverilog. Once that is done, some sum-of-
product synthesis needs to be completed.

This task does *not* require knowledge of the internals of the
Icarus Verilog compiler. All that is needed is a working
knowledge of the ivl_target API, and that can come from the
existing source and some examples.

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