A new processor

Hi SimKnutt

Your project sounds interesting for research but is not practical in an industrial environment. At the end it remains a fact that todays engineers have to follow the market tools and cores. Design complexity is gone too far for any personal flavoring. We are all having a miserable time with vendor documentations of their own tools with no channel to express our frustrations apart from these lovely sanctuary of forums.

We also have hard time adjusting to the changes the vendors constantly make to their tools. It is a new type of tyrrany I am afraid but with common goal, to make profit for companies so we may pay our rent.

from vhdl to verilog to the dead AHDL, ABLE,...C, Qbasic, TCL, TimeQuest, Ruby, DOS, m files, simulink fun and the mosaic of converters back and forth.. from xilinx package of scattered tools to Altera's semi-integrated Quartus, to Modelsim, to ...infinity of tools and their web subversions and you name it. We need some poetry to express our frustration.

And the design environment;chaotic masses of entangled wires and connectors on everbody's desk, some desks never seen the daylight in their life. The tons of codes and modules scattered in tons of folder and subfolder names, I have never never successfully and painlessly reused any piece of inhouse work and preferred to start from a scratch.

Wishing you all the success and my apologies.