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Not without application of brain, no.

Look for information on some relevant products:

Cynthesizer (Forte Design Systems) Catapult C (Mentor Graphics) C-synthesis (Celoxica) CyberWorkBench (NEC) SystemStudio (Synopsys)

and probably a bunch more I haven't thought of.

To get you started, here's a translation of a well-known C program into VHDL, achieved without any special software:

use std.textio.all; entity hello is end; architecture world of hello is begin process begin write(output, "Hello World" & CR & LF); wait; end process; end;

There is always a C compiler generating a ROM for a processor implemented in VHDL ready to synthesize. That might not be what you meant.

The thought process is different between serial C and "everything happens all the time" HDL's. A VHDL program is more like wire and gates, and very little like a C program.

-- glen

... unless the hardware description is completed in a single process using no signals. Some examples:

-- Mike Treseler