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From: jdla@btmp09.be (jos de laender vh14 7461)
Subject: Re: ADA - VHDL
Date: 1996/07/16
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Date: 1996-07-16T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <31ead866.2979882@news.smart.net>, cheebie@sexy.and.smart.net
(Brian "Cheebie" Merchant) writes:
|> 
|> As for the other two.  VHDL is, in the end, a way to describe
|> *hardware*.  There are some extremely useful software construct
which
|> simply do not translate well to hardware.  (recursive structures is
one
|> of these)

	No it isn't. Not all software constructs are at now 
	translated efficiently to hardware, but that's merely 
	a matter of time. 
	Recursive structures ARE translated now to hardware (at
	least by Synopsys).

ir. Jos De Laender
VLSI design
Alcatel Telecom, Antwerp

|> 
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