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chisel
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Calyx: Intermediate Language for Hardware Accelerators
My first instinct was to ask "Does this play well with CIRCT?" And thankfully they answer that right away in the README.
I'm personally of the opinion that there is a LOT of room for improvement in the hardware design tooling space, but a combination of market consolidation, huge pressure to meet deadlines, and an existing functional pipeline of Verilog/VHDL talent is preventing changes.
That's not to say "Verilog/VHDL are bad", because clearly they've been good enough to support nearly all of the wonderful designs powering today's devices. But it is to say, "the startup scene for hardware will continue to look anemic compared to the SaaS scene until someone gives me all of the niceties I have for building SaaS tools in software."
A huge amount of ideas (and entire designs) start off as software sims, which enables kernel/compiler engineers to start building out support for new hardware before it's manufactured.
There is some interesting work going on at SiFive building hardware with Chisel[1], as well as some interesting work lead by a professor at William and Mary to improve simulations[2].
1: https://www.chisel-lang.org
2: https://github.com/sarchlab/akita
- Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language
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I may be creating an abomination
Inspired by Scala. Which can do a whole lot more, and worse. The currently biggest competitor to decades old hardware description languages is a Scala DSL.
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An addressable little explored language gap: HDL - Hardware Description Languages, any language used for electronic circuit design, description, and specs
Already mentioned Chisel: https://www.chisel-lang.org/
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Trying to learn and work with FPGAs
I'm also a hobbyist. There are a number of alternative HDLs out there, and as hobbyists we can deviate more from the mainstream of (System)Verilog and VHDL if we desire, though you'll still need to be able to read them. In the past I've done Verilog, but lately I've been using SpinalHDL and have been really enjoying it. Its close relative Chisel also makes appearances in the RISC-V space.
- Alternate HDL language and Physical Design/EDA tools?
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Learning VDHL after knowing Verilog
What are your thoughts on other HDLs like Chisel or BlueSpec when it comes to better type checking?
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Learning Verilog and FPGA
I started playing with FPGAs and HDLs a couple years ago with no hardware design background (I'm mostly a software architect/engineer) and in the end found that a "higher-level" HDL suited me better.
I chose Chisel (https://www.chisel-lang.org/) an HDL based on Scala (technically a Scala DSL) which can provide many facilities to hardware generation.
I'd highly advise looking into it although also knowing Verilog helps a lot.
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If you keep clicking "Give 15 seconds" on Lichess, eventually it overflows to a negative number and you win
But some go further and ask "what if when we add a soldering station on top of it?"
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What universities have good PhD programmes in digital design?
In recent years Chisel HDL, RISC V, and SiFive came out of their architecture group, to name a few.
XiangShan
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Loongson 3A6000: A Star Among Chinese CPUs
Are you calling for the government to pick a winner? The Chinese word for this fierce if at times chaotic competition is "juan". It worked for them in EV and PV. The outcome remains to be seen in chips and commercial space launches. But even their mostly (ex-)students-run open source Xiangshan RiscV project https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan shows a remarkable level of sophistication.
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MRISC32 – An Open 32-Bit RISC/Vector ISA (Suitable for FPGA CPU)
> Certainly no RISC-V implementations that are in the hands of customers right now do any fusion and it doesn't seem to hurt their ability to match or exceed the performance of similar Arm cores (A55, A72).
You can play around with OpenXianShan though, they have a few fusion targets: https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan/blob/master/src/m...
Most of the targets require the same destination, so it won't be able to fuse current codegen. I suppose there is still some time before compilers need to be ready, but it's not that much.
> Perhaps they will provide compiler patches if required.
I hope so, btw t-head seems to be still be trying to upstream XTheadVector: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2024-January/64278...
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Ask HN: Are there any open source dual-issue RISC-V processor
This is the most advanced open source risc-v implementation I'm awair of: https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
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How can I leverage RISC-V in my final year Electrical & Electronics Engineering project? Seeking advice and project ideas.
Maybe implement a big feature for a open source design? like vroom or xiangshan.
- 大炼芯运动彻底破产,跪舔韩国要技术
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New processor, OS to propel open-source chip ecosystem
I did know about XiangShan, but not Aolai. Is it a Linux distribution?
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How to build a Startup use open source chips
If you are interested in high performance look into vroom , c910 and xianghan, maybe you could adopt one of them.
- Open-source high-performance RISC-V processor
What are some alternatives?
SpinalHDL - Scala based HDL
openc910 - OpenXuantie - OpenC910 Core
myhdl - The MyHDL development repository
darkriscv - opensouce RISC-V cpu core implemented in Verilog from scratch in one night!
amaranth - A modern hardware definition language and toolchain based on Python
riscv-boom - SonicBOOM: The Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine
cocotb - cocotb, a coroutine based cosimulation library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python
peakperf - Achieve peak performance on x86 CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs
skywater-pdk - Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology Foundry's 130nm node.
redroid-doc - redroid (Remote-Android) is a multi-arch, GPU enabled, Android in Cloud solution. Track issues / docs here
bsc - Bluespec Compiler (BSC)
cpufetch - Simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool