Re: Parallel processing

[John Clarke <johnc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Re: the Xilinx chip

The Programming Research Group at Oxford University had(has?) a
project looking at hardware compilation.  You write a program in
OCCAM (just an imperative language like "C" but with parallel/serial
statements) and the compiler churns out assignments for the gate array.

So you don't really even need to know too much about the hardware.

They had some nifty image processing demos, but PC's kept overtaking
whatever gate array they were currently using...

I nearly used it for my thesis, but then MMX came along :)

John