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

[Brill P. <bri...@ro...>]

I think they are traditionally used mainly for "glue" chip tasks, and can
replace a large number of discrete components quickly, and allow updating
via. software... similar to uC's but really for a different purpose
(although the lines seem to be blurring significantly).

- Brill Pappin
  Rogue Robotics
  www.roguerobotics.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrzej Jan Taramina" <an...@ch...>
To: <emb...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: [Embedlets-dev] [HW] HDL, FPGA and other assorted acronyms....


> Topic tags:[ARCH][JAPL][WIRING][DOCS][MGMT][STRATEGY][NEWBIE]
> _______________________________________________
>
> 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
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