Icarus Verilog projects in academic; was Re: gEDA-dev: Google summer of code

[Timothy Normand Miller]

On 3/11/07, Günter Dannoritzer <dannoritzer at web.de> wrote:

> I get the feeling that one problem with a hardware simulator like Icarus
> is that actually Electrical Engineering students would use it and
> Computer Science students would develop or extend it.
>
> >From that split it might be difficult to encourage people to work on it.
> I mean it is probably simple to get some Computer Science professor
> hooked to an xy language compiler and have him run projects that speed
> it up or add features. But an EE professor wants to get some logic
> designs going and not spend time on developing the tools.

Yes, the challenge is finding the CS or EE people who are right on the
borderline.  I know some people in super-computing, for instance, who
have some HDL experience (crays have Xilinx FPGAs in them).  Some
people in computer architecture (expecially CPU arch.) may have also
have had similar exposure.  I know a few people in EE, but I really
don't know what it's like from their side.  At OSU, the EE department
is actually "ECE" (electrical and computer engineering), so there may
be more people over there interested in software development.

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Timothy Normand Miller
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