During a recent visit to CERN, I was discussing ways for physicists to effectively contribute to FPGA programming with Nick Ellis of Atlas. He pointed me to Mike Levine and the Handel-C FPGA programming language. Here's what I've learned so far.
Celoxica is the company selling Handel-C. For a lab, pricing is in the 10K/seat range I believe; for universities 1K for 3 seats, 3 yrs; 4K for 50 seats. They also sell Xilinx prototyping boards for 10K; 4-7K for universities.
- Data sheet (4 p)
- white paper (including success stories;12 p)
- Language Manual (V 2.1; 312p)
Case Studies with code, papers by academics, the version 3.0 language manual, etc. are in the Technical Library section of their web site. You have to register (though not pay) to get current manuals.
Some web pages: