Software to silicon [hardware compilation]

The principles of hardware compilation could be set to rewrite the rule book of silicon design. This article describes Handel-C, a parallel programming language that is providing programmers with a route to FPGA-based VLSI design, not by offering them a familiar programming environment combined with access to the parallel constructs familiar to the hardware designer, but by expressing the parallelism at a totally different level of abstraction; it doesn´t describe the hardware like an HDL does - it describes the computation