Le 09/07/2011 17:22, Darren New nous fit lire :
> On 7/8/2011 23:18, Warp wrote:
>> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>>> It's kind of amusing, after all this time, to look at the
>>> documentation for
>>> a CPU instruction and see it described in terms of VHDL instead of
>>> just prose.
>>
>>    That was certainly random.
> 
> It just goes to show that nowadays, people design CPUs using VHDL. Waste
> not want not.
> 
Also, open prose might be subject to interpretation when complexity
kicks in, whereas VHDL can be seen as a simplified and explicited prose.

And VHDL allows you to run the instruction set on an emulator, without
wasting resources to translate the prose.

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