Ideas for getting (software) people into PipelineC+FPGAs

[JulianKemmerer]

Can seed this discussion with suarezvictor's suggestions :)

To me, the main thing to be done is to *bring new users* by showing them
how powerful is the tool. For that, the following objectives should be
achieved (in my opinion):

1) Show how an algorithm can run with a regular compiler or in hardware.
Examples can be the crypto or video algorithms - same source, untouched.
This should attract experienced C programmers that want to design custom
hardware but are scared by the current hardware description languages.
2) Show examples of what latencies, fmax and area (in % of a common device)
are required for different algorithms
3) Show how reliable is the tool by running automated test even with custom
algorithms (i.e. generate code that checks that a regular compiler results
and a verilated version matches cycle by cycle)
4) Show complex and useful libraries being easy to incorporate, for
example, a math library matching the standard C one.