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I DID mean why verilog as opposed to system verilog, VHDL, “etc.,” or whatever the verilog of 2020 is.
by 100ideas 11y ago
I DID mean why verilog as opposed to system verilog, VHDL, “etc.,” or whatever the verilog of 2020 is.
- jamessb 11y agoIt's currently only feasible to produce very small circuits (the paper goes up to 8 gates and 3 inputs), and Cello is currently focused on a narrow class of circuits ("asynchronous combinatorial logic without feedback"). The first step of their algorithm is to convert the Verilog code into a truth table. When your circuits are so simple, I suppose it doesn't really matter what language you use to specify them, and the authors just went for whatever they thought was most convenient to parse.
- 100ideas 11y agoThe authors want to create Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools to facilitate engineering genetic systems at scale. Is verilog a reasonably modern foundation from which to draw inspiration, or are there "better" EDA tools nowadays? Maybe one of the resident HN semiconductor experts can weigh in on this.