Nice work. FPGA design appears to be very similar to GPU shader programming. First time I've read anything about FPGA design that connected. Usually FPGA stories get lost in data flow jargon and I learn nothing.
You'll notice I didn't apply the term 'programming' to FPGA. Reading the post I noted this was a likely hang up among FPGA designers and carefully employed the preferred jargon. I imagine this sensitivity is the product of much frustration with forever being conflated with mere programmers. Must be awful.
Then no programming exists at all. When writing a C code you are describing a program that runs on the C abstract machine. The same thing holds for all "programming" languages.
Sorry, I am not ready for philosophical discussion. We can take definition from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming Programming involves code execution on computer. There is no computer in FPGA.
Thanks! I too think GPU programming is quite similar in that you need to think of things in a more data streaming sense. It's sort of functional that way too; building up pipelines of transforms.
