You can still abstract lots of it. For example chisel[1] does so through high level abstractions and parametrized generators - while still offering results equ

You can still abstract lots of it. For example chisel[1] does so through high level abstractions and parametrized generators - while still offering results equal to verilog.It's also also used for the open source risc-V architecture[4], the recent highly-efficient parallel cpu[2] done by a small start-up(2 guys),and a floating-point alu generator[3] that explores the design space of fpu's and finds optimal designs. And reading about these projects, one gets the impression chisel was critical for them. [1]https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/chisel-dac2012.pdf https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/chisel-dac2012.pdf [2]http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1324759 http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1324759 [3]http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6545888&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6545888 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=654588... [4]http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?doc_id=1323406 http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?doc_id=1323406