Rim Semiconductor Company (fka RSMI)

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gmjo2: Re: Is is possible...to have the software for a working technology and not be able to get to an FGPA ?

In a word, no. If you can do it in software, you can do it in an FPGA. For simple designs, you use a hardware control language like Verilog that maps directly to an FPGA. For more complex designs, you may write routines in higher-level languages like C++. In those cases it is not a trivial matter to go from the high level language to the FPGA language - but it can be done. It usually is a matter of throwing enough bodies and money at the problem. Propp has done a great deal of work in converting high level languages to hardware control languages. It may very well be a difficult problem, but it is certainly possible - and probable.