glasgow VS amaranth

Compare glasgow vs amaranth and see what are their differences.

glasgow

Scots Army Knife for electronics (by GlasgowEmbedded)

amaranth

A modern hardware definition language and toolchain based on Python (by amaranth-lang)
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glasgow amaranth
4 7
1,803 1,411
1.0% 4.5%
9.4 9.6
6 days ago 4 days ago
Python Python
BSD Zero Clause License BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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glasgow

Posts with mentions or reviews of glasgow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-21.
  • Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Oct 2021
    Hmm. A followup question: are there any cheats/hacks that would make it possible (if painful) to for example explore the world of USB3, PCIe, or Linux on low-end-ish ARM (eg https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c..., based on the 533MHz https://linux-sunxi.org/F1C100s), without needing to buy equipment in the mid-4-figure/low-5-figure range, if I were able to substitute a statistically larger-than-average amount of free time (and discipline)?

    For example, I learned about https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow recently, a bit of a niche kitchen sink that uses https://github.com/nmigen/nmigen/ to lower a domain-specific subset of Python 3 (https://nmigen.info/nmigen/latest/lang.html) into Verilog which then runs on the Glasgow board's iCE40HX8K. The project basically makes it easier to use cheap FPGAs for rapid iteration. (The README makes a point that the synthesis is sufficiently fast that caching isn't needed.)

    In certain extremely specific situations where circumstances align perfectly (caveat emptor), devices like this can sometimes present a temporary escape to the inevitable process of acquiring one's first second-hand high-end oscilloscope (fingers-crossed the expensive bits still have a few years left in them). To some extent they may also commoditize the exploration of very high-speed interfaces, which are rapidly becoming a commonplace principal of computers (eg, having 10Gbps everywhere when USB3.1 hits market saturation will be interesting) faster than test and analysis kit can keep up (eg to do proper hardware security analysis work). The Glasgow is perhaps not quite an answer to that entire statement, but maybe represents beginning steps in that sort of direction.

    So, to reiterate - it's probably an unhelpfully broad question, and I'm still learning about the field so haven't quite got the preciseness I want yet, but I'm curious what gadgetry, techniques, etc would perhaps allow someone to "hack it" and dive into this stuff on a shoestring budget? :)

amaranth

Posts with mentions or reviews of amaranth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-01.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing glasgow and amaranth you can also consider the following projects:

SpinalHDL - Scala based HDL

cocotb - cocotb, a coroutine based cosimulation library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python

chisel - Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language

chiselverify - A dynamic verification library for Chisel.

myhdl - The MyHDL development repository

pygears - HW Design: A Functional Approach

clash-ghc - Haskell to VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog compiler

riscv-isa-manual - RISC-V Instruction Set Manual

xournalpp - Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

circt - Circuit IR Compilers and Tools

cunumeric - An Aspiring Drop-In Replacement for NumPy at Scale

copperhead - Data Parallel Python