From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,453ad12d1b0e5ff1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: ADA vs VHDL Date: 1998/10/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 406743837 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE References: <3638C82B.ECC52B40@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at> <71bsth$1ck$1@platane.wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 909770722 29765 bpr@206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > Gerhard Griessnig a =E9crit dans le message =2E.. snip ... > >We need a comparison between VHDL and ADA in Hardware/Software - > >Codesign and simulation. > >Does anybody know needful information or literature. > > > There is a connection between the languages; in a sense, VHDL is to hardw= are > what Ada is to software. For example, there is an Ada CD-ROM tha includes > also > some VHDL. Well, I sure hope that isn't true, otherwise Ada has little chance of acceptance in the US hardware design community, where VHDL is in general=20 not thought of highly. Yes, I realize that the same statement could be made about Ada, but IMO the added complexity of Ada over C brings significant advantages to the programmer (not to mention that Ada is *less* complicated than C++) which the added complexity of VHDL over Verilog does not bring to the hardware designer.=20 VHDL has mostly a superficial similarity to Ada, having butchered both the= =20 package system and generics. That's my opinion, worth every cent you paid for it ;-) That doesn't mean I think Verilog is great, just that the=20 analogy Ada:VHDL as C:Verilog doesn't work for me. There was someone proposing to use an Ada subset for hardware design, and I posted the reference in response to another query a while ago. -- Brian=20