[Haskell-cafe] FPGA / Lava and haskell

Alfonso Acosta alfonso.acosta at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 22:26:44 EDT 2008


We'll soon (before september, hopefully) relase a deep-embedded
version of ForSyDe[1] which, among other things, has a VHDL backend
(with specific support for Altera's Modelsim and Quartus).

ForSyDe's new implementation is internally based upon the same concept
as Lava (Observable Sharing). However, it has quite a few differences:

* ForSyDe is behavioural (computations are expressed in plain haskell)
* It has support for components
* Is not barely targeted at synchrounous hardware systems (although
the VHDL backend is obviously aimed at them). It has suport for other
MoCs (Models of Computation).

[1] http://www.imit.kth.se/info/FOFU/ForSyDe/


On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> Is Haskell still used (in industry as well ?) to write (V)HDL code to
> program FPGAs and create circuits on chips?
> The Chalmers Lava homepage tells abouta Xilinx version which should be
> merged in soon. But on the xilinx homepage there was no reference to
> neither Lava nor haskell..
> I'm thinking about designing a similar tool to www.combimouse.com.
>
> Sincerly
> Marc
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