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I heard that some scholars say, Not too far, there will be the era that auto-hardware synthesizer will be invented.
The idea is this, compiler will be able to know which part of software program can be executed fast or better if that part is done by HW, such as matrix calculation or large computation.
So compiler can generate HW to support software program by itself, which leads to the demand of HW design by human can be decreased..
I'd like to know your opinion about this, does that scholar's saying sound probable to you ??
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It will probably happen at some point, and will be helped by Intel owning Altera. But we are still a long way off. C to gates has been around for 20 or so years, but it's still no where near the efficiency of pure HDL. Modern Things like OpenCL, HDL Coder and simulink bring more people from the software world into FPGAs and make the transistion easier. It also allows rapid prototyping. But when Costs savings and logic reduction is required, nothing beats pure HDL.
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