...but I think it will be quite a long time before you see people like Intel, IBM, Motorola, Nvidia, TI, et. al. using this. Spinning hardware is *expensive* and you have to absolutely know your design is correct. AFAIK that usually means a tool that has been tested, inspected and ripped apart many times over. So perhaps five to seven years down the pipe, we'll be designing hardware in Java. But...
...people are making good points that hardware is not software. Everything is happening at the same time and if you are thinking in a one stream of execution state of mind you are not thinking in the correct problem space. The virtual machine that is presented by most operating systems is simply nothing like hardware. Not to say its bad, its just different.
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...but I think it will be quite a long time before you see people like Intel, IBM, Motorola, Nvidia, TI, et. al. using this. Spinning hardware is *expensive* and you have to absolutely know your design is correct. AFAIK that usually means a tool that has been tested, inspected and ripped apart many times over. So perhaps five to seven years down the pipe, we'll be designing hardware in Java. But...
...people are making good points that hardware is not software. Everything is happening at the same time and if you are thinking in a one stream of execution state of mind you are not thinking in the correct problem space. The virtual machine that is presented by most operating systems is simply nothing like hardware. Not to say its bad, its just different.
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