[myhdl-list] Re: MyHDL success

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

Frank Palazzolo wrote:

> Oh one other thing...I'm curious where the name MyHDL came from.  It seems
> there are some academic references to something called PyHDL, which I would
> imagine would be the more natural name.  It seems like every Python project
> starts with Py these days...

The 'Py' prefix is too obvious for my taste, to the point where I wasn't even
aware of 'PyHDL' before you mentioned it. PyHDL indeed seems an academic effort,
I didn't find any docs or software to download.

MyHDL originates from my dissatisfaction with current HDL and HVL languages,
that don't provide the ease of use and high abstraction level of a "scripting"
language such as Python. It's my response to the question: "How would my
favourite HDL look like?"

I considered a number of names. One day my attention was caught by a reference
to the MySQL database, and this inspired me: I thought that MyHDL would be
an appriopriate name for my efforts. I hesitated because it sounded egocentric,
but then figured that this was compensated for by going open-source: it can be
YourHDL too, as soon as you decide to use or even change it :-)

Regards, Jan

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