While the first two generations of programming languages were highly machine-dependent, 3GLs, which are sometimes referred to as mid-level and sometimes high-level languages, can run on different ...

For programming and integration, you obviously need an open and accessible API. (Whereby the world converges on XML somehow.

The next level would be a handful of components, and so on, while the lowest level could be millions of objects. See abstraction layer. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Arguably, the translation stages between levels may introduce misinterpretation of the original concept, invoking features not intended when describing the concept at the highest level of abstraction; ...

Meanwhile, hardware design has been stuck at the register transfer level (RTL) of design for over 15 years. Several attempts have been made to raise the level of abstraction. Most of them failed.

You can exploit this similarity to make it easier to use the two classes. In fact, you can have one data loop that handles both types of classes by defining an SCL interface for both classes. To ...

By Sachin Kakkar, Sanjay Gupta, Ayan Banerjee, and Rohit Goel, Mentor Graphics Programmable Logic DesignLine -- (05/14/08, 12:43:00 PM EDT) As discussed in Part 1, this article proposes four steps to ...