Didn't miss it, just don't think they're equivalent. I appreciate functional programming and block diagrams/black box design are great tools for that space. How

Didn't miss it, just don't think they're equivalent. I appreciate functional programming and block diagrams/black box design are great tools for that space. However they don't capture the nuance of circuit design that goes into FPGA development. You can't capture pipeline depth, SRAM usage, thermal envelope/clock gating that have significant real world impacts on your design.