alt_hdl.md

Alternative HDLs

There are many higher level approaches for digital design than with HDLs. This lecture provides a brief survey of several different higher level approaches. In all of these approaches, HDL is generated by the higher level language or framework.

Reading

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Reference

• slides
• Language Survey
• Google TPU Edge in Chisel

Key Concepts

• What is HLS and what type of input does it require
• What type of HDL code segments to higher level HDLs need to generate?
• Know what languages are used as input for Chisel, SpinalHDL, MiGen, and MyHDL