ALuPin said:
First, because this group is for discussing the VHDL language and tools
directly related to the language. Check the FAQs for the charter (
http://www.eda.org/comp.lang.vhdl ). Details of programming hardware
does not fall under this definition, IMO. If all questions were
appropriate for all newsgroups, there would be no reason to have
anything other than one giant group instead of the hierarchy of groups
that does exist.
Second, because, presumably, you want an answer to your question.
comp.arch.fpga is a better venue for getting an answer because you have
a broader base of people who are specifically interested in FPGAs.
Does describing hardware not mean programming it sooner or later?
Actually, no it doesn't. FPGA/CPLD devices are only a subset of the
hardware developed using VHDL. I have written thousands of lines of VHDL
(for ASICs) that have never passed through any kind of programmer. And
then there's the 60% of the total code that is used for verification
that isn't even synthesizable.