[Embedlets-dev] [HW] HDL, FPGA and other assorted acronyms....

[Andrzej J. T. <an...@ch...>]

Took me a while to figure out what FPGA meant.  

Anyway.....this seems to be very low level hardware oriented stuff. I think that 
logica arrays (HDL, JHDL) is a great technology (reminds me of my youth with 
digital logic decades ago) but way too low a level for our needs (though it 
might make sense for device designers, who would then expose their 
hardware with a JAPL interface). Might be some good insights on Graphical 
Widing techniques there.  But I don't see much regarding our Embedlet 
Container implementation.

> I think that putting Embedlets into an FPGA using this kind of technology could
> prove to be very interesting.

Wouldn't you use FPGA to design/create/configure a processor that then could 
run something like Java/Embedlets?  In which case it just looks like another 
processor (aJile, Intel, PIC, whatever) to us.  Again, it seems that FPGA is 
much lower level (hardware design) than we are targeting.

Unless I missed something. ;-)

Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com