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Ask HN: How to get a job as a compiler engineer?
MLIR (https://mlir.llvm.org/) is a quickly growing compiler toolkit which attempts to synthesize the learnings of LLVM and currently powers compilers for programming languages, machine learning and circuit design (https://github.com/llvm/circt). and there are a ton of companies with real employees working on it (including Microsoft) and MLIR is at the core of Chris Lattner’s new company, ModularAI. I’d recommend taking a look at it, there are a large number of ways to get involved and a number of paths from contributor to employee.
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Rapid Open Hardware Development (ROHD) Framework by Intel
Might be good to target the CIRCT infrastructure at some point.
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TSMC eyes Germany for first European chip production plant
Even small optimizations like removing unused pins from internal modules are often times opposed.
Chris Lattner and others are currently working on an "industry" version of firrtl as part of the CIRCT hardware compiler framework: https://github.com/llvm/circt
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Chisel/Firrtl Hardware Compiler Framework
Did you see the work being done on CIRCT? https://github.com/llvm/circt
I remember one of the reasons you did not want to use firrtl was that its compiler is implemented in Scala and thus hard to integrate into other projexts. CIRCT will solve that problem by providing a firrtl compiler implemented in C++. Other languages like Verilog/VHDL and new high level languages for HLS-like designs are also on the todo list.
- Julia Receives DARPA Award to Accelerate Electronics Simulation by 1,000x
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VHDL backend
Relevant: https://github.com/llvm/circt
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How to configure vim like an IDE
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svls VS verible - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 3 Nov 2021
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Julia Receives DARPA Award to Accelerate Electronics Simulation by 1,000x
I can attest first-hand to the "headache" that comes from semi company simulation environments. Not only are they horribly outdated (in Perl/Tcl), but they're different at every company you work at. There's no gold standard because the standard that these EDA companies ought to be making doesn't exist.
There needs to be an open initiative between semi companies to create a standard simulation environment -- with compilers, unit-test frameworks, and all sorts of simulation (gate-level, analog/mixed signal, emulation, etc). Hell, just give me a free IDE plugin for SystemVerilog that actually works.
This lack of a standard seems to me like the critical path in hardware design. I'm trying to support projects to fix this like SVLS (A language server for SystemVerilog: https://github.com/dalance/svls) but these are all hard problems to solve. This industry is relatively niche and doesn't seem to have many engineers interested in FOSS.
What are some alternatives?
SpinalHDL - Scala based HDL
verible - Verible is a suite of SystemVerilog developer tools, including a parser, style-linter, formatter and language server
chisel - Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language
veridian - A SystemVerilog Language Server
hdlConvertor - Fast Verilog/VHDL parser preprocessor and code generator for C++/Python based on ANTLR4
texlab - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX
torch-mlir - The Torch-MLIR project aims to provide first class support from the PyTorch ecosystem to the MLIR ecosystem.
Verilog.jl - Verilog for Julia
mlir-aie - An MLIR-based toolchain for AMD AI Engine-enabled devices.
RecursiveFactorization.jl
cocotb - cocotb, a coroutine based cosimulation library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python
Modia.jl - Modeling and simulation of multidomain engineering systems