Re: new DARPA initiative: optimizing compiler to logic-gates+PCB target

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

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
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> What the Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) describes seems to be somewhere in the vicinity of Ada*+VHDL**+SPICE***+ATP****.
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> * 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
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> ** e.g., for digital-logic description
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> *** e.g., for analog-electronics modeling, especially on the PCB
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> **** e.g., automated theorem prover, for automated transformation in lifter, lateral, and lowering directions
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> $100 million bet is on the table at the DARPA casino.
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> (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.