Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: m-node@ix.netcom.com (mitchell) Subject: The PARALLEL Processing Connection-February 9 meeting notice Organization: The PARALLEL Processing Connection Date: 16 Feb 1998 18:17:02 GMT Message-ID: <6c9vqu$ovd$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> The PARALLEL Processing Connection recognizes Run Time Reconfigurable Hardware to be an important enabling technology. The proposition is that a software package would be mapped to hardware by software people and a bit stream file would then be easily produced to implement that hardware implementation. However, C programmers generally don't have the necessary hardware knowledge to create the software to hardware mapping. Compilogic Corporation's new C2Verilog compiler overcomes this problem and yields high performance hardware implementations! On February 9th Don Soderman, CEO of Compilogic will discuss how their compiler automatically creates on-chip registers, arithmetic macros, external memory interfaces, and multiple state machines for loops ... starting from C! PPC will be interested in what limitations presently exist in the C2Verilog compiler and what kind of collaborative arrangements might be possible between PPC and Compilogic. On the surface C2Verilog looks very impressive. The main meeting starts promptly at 7:30PM at Sun Microsystems at 901 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto. This is just off the southbound San Antonio exit of 101. Northbound travelers also exit at San Antonio and take the overpass to the other side of 101. A discussion of member projects currently underway and other issues of interest to entrepreneurs follows immediately thereafter at 9:15PM. Please be prompt; as usual, we expect a large attendance; don't be left out or left standing. There is a $12 fee for non-members and members will be admitted free. Yearly membership fee is $65. -- B. Mitchell Loebel Executive Director The PARALLEL Processing Connection 408 732-9869 -- Articles to parallel@ctc.com (Administrative: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel