1. C link remains faryed in hardware design flows.
- Author
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Wilson, Ron
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C (Computer program language) , *BASIC (Computer program language) , *ALGORITHMS , *PROGRAMMING languages , *COMPUTER programming , *ELECTRONIC data processing - Abstract
The article presents information related to computer programming language C. In the beginning, C was used much like Basic to solve simple computing problems for which there were no ready tools at hand, be they circuit-parameter calculations, algorithm simulations or shell scripts. A dialect of C can also be useful in modeling the movement of data through chips, as QLogic has found. C is so efficient at expressing the behavior of digital blocks, at least from a programmer's point of view, that it plays a key role in some verification flows even when it's not used at the architectural level. INSET: Coincidence, compromise and C.
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- 2005