FPGAs for Everyone: The psC Language Reference Manual

Novakod Studio and the psC language (html version at: icitechno.ddns.net/NovakodInstall/nethelp/) C++ Developers: Program your first FPGA in 20minutes (Get the tools at www.icitechno.com) This book presents a new technology for programming FPGAs. The psC language and the Novakod Studio IDE make FPGA programming accessible to everyone while allowing professionals to develop high-performance parallel or sequential applications. With the psC language you program in a high-level C++-like language and you get hand-coded quality. In addition, the cycle-accurate high-level simulator gives you WYSIWYG (what you simulate is what you get) on the real FPGA. For makers and computer scientists If you are unfamiliar with FPGAs or tired of struggling with VHDL, the psC language is for you. All you need is a little C++, and there you go. You will easily learn psC and, with a BSP (board support package), you never need to write a line of VHDL or even use the Xilinx or Intel tool chain. Later, learn more about FPGAs and tools to develop real-world applications. For professionals As an FPGA specialist, you will learn psC very quickly and you will enjoy designing your code at high level and testing it with the powerful test environment in Novakod Studio. The psC language is compiled, not synthesized, so you will produce quality code and you will be able to optimize the high-level code as if it were VHDL. For managers As a manager, you struggle to find VHDL programmers. With the psC language and a small amount of training, you can have computer scientists program FPGAs. In addition, the psC language brings you faster development and testing, better documentation and easier maintenance. Think how much easier it will be to document and maintain a C++-like language compared to VHDL. For students and teachers With the psC language, there’s no need to know digital electronic or FPGAs: with a little C++, FPGA programming can be learned in the second or third semester. And with our board simulator you can easily work at home and learn much faster. Best of all, you can move on quickly from designing counters or shift registers and start working on interesting applications like image processing, communication protocols and processor design.