As a technology, the conversion of a C program to Verilog is
twenty or thirty years old. Still, it was new to me and I had
a great time figuring it out. :)
A write up of the C-to-Verilog process is here:
It is an easy read so you might want to start at the beginning:
The next step is to select a spreadsheet to modify to make
it into a parallel programming language.
thanks
Bob Smith