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Hi Julian,

Thanks for the info!

I hadn't thought about the HDL code running "all at once", that is a good point.
Maybe I'll look into their CPLDs or the combined AVR/CPLD I saw
mentioned somewhere.

Thanks again.

Regards,
  JJ

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Julian Higginson
<julian.h@bruttour.com.au> wrote:
> HDL is a very different thing to C. HDL code running in a PLD or an FPGA
> runs "all at once", while a microcontroller runs a sequence of steps, one
> after the other... I imagine HDL to microcontroller conversion (short of
> running a logic simulator on the micro!!) is pretty near impossible to do
> automatically.
>
> If you want to get into HDL code, I played about with Atmel CPLDs many years
> ago, and had a bunch of fun with them. Basically just doing parallel/serial
> conversion and Manchester encoding... It wasn't hard to get started, or
> expensive. http://atmel.com/products/pld/default.asp
> Looks like there's still free dev environment software to use, too.
> http://atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=2759
>
> Julian Higginson
> Bruttour International
> http://www.bruttour.com.au
> Ph: +612 9987 1581
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of John Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:16 AM
> To: avr-chat
> Subject: [AVR-Chat] Use Verilog/VHDL to code for the AVR?
>
> Hello All,
>
> I skimmed over some VHDL code the other day, and it looks pretty
> interesting.
> Is there a way to write in VHDL, then have it translated to
> C/Assembly/Hex to program an AVR?
>
> The whole PORTB |= _BV(MY_OUT) gets tedious after a while. (just an
> example.)
>
> Always looking for something new (to me) and cool to learn!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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> JJ
>
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> JJ
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 JJ

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