This is probably the stupidest question ever...

[Fats]

Hello Garret,

What you ask for is the holy grail of the EDA (electronic design automation) industry. This problem is very complicated because code written in a higher level programming language is a number of commands executed serially, hardware is a number of block working parallel. To get more information about development in this industry you can surf to EETimes. One of the last articles in the EDA section was this: C based design methodology accelerates ASIC/FPGA design cycles

Have fun,
Staf.