Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Miles Gazic wrote:
>>> For software to be truly expert friendly, it must use languages
>>> that are meaningful in the application domain, and lots of
>>> extendability.  To a circuit designer, that is not C, Scheme,
>>> M4, or XML.
>> The ones I know circuit designers use are verilog, perl and python.
>> and then there are the many Matlab programmers...
>>
>> Are any of those what you're thinking of Al?
> 
> Verilog or VHDL are the only languages that I know of that are
> directly used in hardware design, and IMO neither is suited for
> writing scripts on PCs.  Since no suitable languages are commonly used
> in hardware development (except by people who also write software), I
> don't think there's a clear choice. 

How about the code intensive hardware system developers that start
a project with FPGA then migrate it to ASIC?  What language do they use -- c++?

John Griessen
-- 
Ecosensory   Austin TX


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