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RTL Conclusion

RTL is not as expressive for algorithms or data structures as most software programming languages.

The concurrency model is that everything executes in lock-step. The programmer keeps all this concurrency in his/her mind.

Users must generate their own, bespoke handshaking and flow control between components.

Higher-level entry forms are ideally needed, perhaps schedulling within a thread at compile-time and between threads at run time ? (See HLS section later).


21: (C) 2008-11, DJ Greaves, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.