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Apache License 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
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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.
hissp
- Hissp
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2 line tic tac toe
Hissp is a Python library that can compile a whole program into one Python expression.
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What's the most hilarious use of operator overloading you've seen?
If you want Python to be as customizable as Lissp, check out Hissp (and Hebigo).
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Pythoneers here, what are some of the best python tricks you guys use when progrmming with python
Hissp is really cool for metaprogramming Python. There's also macropy, but it's harder to use.
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Lush – Lisp-like language for deep learning designed by Yann LeCun
I prefer https://github.com/gilch/hissp, where Hy has to use shims to pretend statements are expressions, Hissp just targets the expression subset in the first place. (though as you mentioned, hy has a lot of literature and support around it, where as you're going to have to find your own way around hissp)
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A Python-compatible statically typed language erg-lang/erg
No shortage of options, e.g. Dg, Mochi, Coconut, and Hebigo (based on Hissp[1]).
[1]: https://github.com/gilch/hissp
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Other than having a wider range of libraries and beingthus being more "general purpose" and "practical" is there anything that makes Python an intrinsically better programming language than Lisp?
If you want Lisp metaprogramming plus Python ecosystem, check out Hissp
- Lisp.py
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What are some amazing, great python external modules, libraries to explore?
Hissp is really interesting. Read through the docs and you'll understand Python more deeply. It works well with Toolz and Pyrsistent.
- Why Hy?
What are some alternatives?
SpinalHDL - Scala based HDL
hy - A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
myhdl - The MyHDL development repository
hy-lisp-python - examples for my book "A Lisp Programmer Living in Python-Land: The Hy Programming Language"
amaranth - A modern hardware definition language and toolchain based on Python
libpython-clj - Python bindings for Clojure
cocotb - cocotb, a coroutine based cosimulation library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python
coalton - Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.
skywater-pdk - Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology Foundry's 130nm node.
femtolisp - a lightweight, robust, scheme-like lisp implementation
bsc - Bluespec Compiler (BSC)
incanter - Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment for the JVM