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Re: Architecture description languages?

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Subject: Re: Architecture description languages?
From: mskapla...@gmail.com (Mark Kaplan)
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by: Mark Kaplan - Tue, 4 May 2021 21:01 UTC

On Saturday, February 6, 2021 at 1:53:23 PM UTC-5, MitchAlsup wrote:
> On Friday, February 5, 2021 at 10:47:15 PM UTC-6, JimBrakefield wrote:
> > Ran across LISA 2.0, ArchC and Synopsys nML.
> > Are any of these (or others) any good?
> > E.g. being somewhat lazy, can I get a rough and ready RTL generated
> > without spending a fortune?
> >
> > Jim Brakefield
> Wondering::
>
> Back in 1983-1998 I worked with a set of tools from (can't remember) who
> later got absorbed into Synopsis. They had a modeling language called M
> and a Layout language called L. I am intimately familiar with L and not so
> much with M. M is equivalent to unsynthesizeable Verilog while L is equivalent
> to MacDraw with wires (like in Spice).
>
> Maybe their name was "Silicon Compilers" with Tommy Ng as a principle
> in the company (but not CEO or CTO at the time).

The company was originally called Silicon Design Labs. It later became Silicon Compilers and was finally purchased by Mentor Graphics.
I worked for Tommy when I first started.

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Re: Architecture description languages?	Mark Kaplan