Wirth N. Hardware Compilation. The Translation of Programs into Circuits
« Abstract
We explain how programs specified in a sequential programming language can be translated
automatically into a digital circuit. The possibility to specify which parts of a program are to be
compiled into instruction sequences for a conventional processor, and which ones are to be
translated into customized circuits has gained relevance with the advent of large
programmable gate arrays (FPGA). They open the door to introduce massive, fine−grained
parallelism. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, we present a tiny
programming language featuring the basic programming and circuit design facilities. »
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