cascade vs metron

cascade

A Just-In-Time Compiler for Verilog from VMware Research (by vmware-archive)

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A C++ to Verilog translation tool with some basic guarantees that your code will work. (by aappleby)

Fpga Hdl Verilog Compiler Transpiler C CPP

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cascade		metron
	Project
1	Mentions	15
422	Stars	151
-	Growth	-
0.6	Activity	9.6
almost 3 years ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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cascade

Posts with mentions or reviews of cascade. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-23.

Who would benefit if there were an FPGA-only linux OS.
3 projects | /r/FPGA | 23 May 2022

I think VMWare did a just-in-time compilation for verilog called Cascade that I don't think ever got a lot of traction that seems to do parts of what you are looking for in that code first gets executed in a simulator until hardware-compilation is done in which case it is automatically migrated to the hardware/accelerated version. Sadly, the tool/project seems to have been shelved by VMWare and development has moved out into original author's private repo which I think itself may say something about the idea.

metron

Posts with mentions or reviews of metron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-26.

Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
44 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2023
Temporal Programming, a new name for an old paradigm
1 project | /r/compsci | 28 Nov 2022

1 project | /r/computerscience | 27 Nov 2022

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1 project | /r/hackernews | 27 Nov 2022

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 27 Nov 2022

2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2022

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2022

3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 27 Nov 2022
Blue Ball Machines: Translating between the software and hardware universes
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2022

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