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That makes me wonder whether it would be more DMCA-safe / lawsuit-safe to not reveal the format itself but rather the exact process to discover it (avoiding end
by moring 9y ago
That makes me wonder whether it would be more DMCA-safe / lawsuit-safe to not reveal the format itself but rather the exact process to discover it (avoiding endless hours of dead-end experiments because of a wrong assumption about the format)...
- adwn 9y agoI'm replying here to a different comment of yours, which has been flagged for some reason. > Do you have any good source of what these problems are? A quick list: * Bad verification support. Serious verification takes at least as much effort as the implementation. Improving that is a hard problem, and you won't know if you've improved it unless you have experience with real-world designs. * Bad support for sequential code. Contrary to what is taught at college, there is a lot of sequentialism in non-trivial designs (except if you design a CPU, but hardly anybody does that). Basically every protocol is sequential. Even most of the smaller external devices, like ADCs or DACs, typically have a sequential interface. VHDL and Verilog require you to explicitly code a state machine, which is needlessly verbose and error-prone. * Lack of transparency. If the route tool can't meet timing, you have to be able to map the tool's report of the critical path to your high-level design, or you'll have a big problem at the most inconvenient time. * Lack of a convenient VHDL/Verilog interface. If you can't easily instantiate VHDL/Verilog IP cores, your language will be an academic exercise, at most.