On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Jeff Brower wrote:
I don't know why programming the FPGA should look like a black hole. Verilog is straightforward, Matt's code is well structured and seems fairly well commented, there are tons of examples on Altera's website, etc. Sometimes I think people take "do everything in Linux software" to an extreme. There's a reason Altera, Xilinx, Texas Inst, sell more chips every year, even though Intel has tried for 15 years now to create a world without those guys.
One of the great strengths of GNU Radio is that it opens the entire technology stack, from the FPGA all the way up to the GUI. You can optimize your application across the whole stack, putting each function where it makes the most sense. This contrasts with the usual approach where application developers are encouraged put everything in one layer.
Verilog is no more difficult or mysterious than C++, wxPython, autotools etc. Jon Jacky _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
