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Subject: Re: new DARPA initiative:  optimizing compiler to logic-gates+PCB
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On Monday, July 2, 2018 at 11:34:22 AM UTC-5, Shark8 wrote:
> On Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 9:50:29 AM UTC-6, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> > https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333422#msgs
> > 
> > What the Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) describes seems to be somewhere in the vicinity of Ada*+VHDL**+SPICE***+ATP****.
> > 
> > * e.g., for at least algorithmic description and data-structure/record-layout description, and perhaps general front-end/optimizing-backend architecture of bringing the concepts of a software compiler to ASIC/FPGA+PCB hardware
> > 
> > ** e.g., for digital-logic description
> > 
> > *** e.g., for analog-electronics modeling, especially on the PCB
> > 
> > **** e.g., automated theorem prover, for automated transformation in lifter, lateral, and lowering directions
> > 
> > $100 million bet is on the table at the DARPA casino.
> > 
> > (Around AD2000 or so give or take a few years, Shlaer-Mellor world thought this was going to be their space to dominate.  Their vacuum/void is someone else's to fill nowadays.)
> 
> Hm, this rather sounds a lot like my idea for a fully integrated HW/SW IDE.

Yes, I think so.  I share this with c.l.a to show how your idea is the dawn of a new era (and imperative-machine-code-only targets are so 20th-century).