[Haskell-cafe] ANN: clash-0.1.3.0 (Functional Hardware Descriptions)

[Bin Jin]

Hello,
Can you give some brief notes on the new introduced clock-related stuff like
Comp?

Thanks

--Bin Jin

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Christiaan Baaij <
christiaan.baaij at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am pleased to announce an incremental update to CLaSH, version 0.1.3.0.
>
> CLaSH can translate a (semantic) subset of Haskell to RTL-style VHDL.
> Instead of being an embedded DSL like Lava or ForSyDe, CLaSH takes are more
> 'traditional' approach to synthesis/compilation. It uses the GHC API as a
> front-end for parsing, type-checking and desugaring the Haskell source. It
> then exhaustively applies a list of meaning-preserving transformations to
> the intermediate GHC Core representation until it is in the desired normal
> form. The normalized Core/System Fc is then 'trivially' translated to
> RTL-style VHDL.
>
> The new version of CLaSH has the following updates:
> - Support for simulation and synthesis of multi-clock hardware [6]
> - Significant synthesis speed-up (4x to 10x)
>
> CLaSH already supported synthesis of:
> - User-defined Higher-Order functions [1]
> - User-defined ADTs (GADTs are not tested, but *might* work)
> - All of Haskell's choice constructs (Guards, Pattern Matching, etc.)
> - Lambda-abstraction / Anonymous Functions
>
> You can use CLaSH as a library, but the use of the adapted GHC interpreter
> (added the :vhdl command) is recommended. The interpreter can be found on
> the CLaSH website [2], where you will also find examples, papers, tutorials,
> etc. The library can be downloaded from Hackage [3].
>
> I recently gave a demo of CLaSH at the DATE'11 conference in grenoble, this
> demo already made use of the multi-clock feature (and is actually the only
> reference if you want to experiment with multi-clock hardware yourself). The
> source for the demo (audio spectrum analyzer programmed on an Altera Cyclone
> II FPGA board) can be downloaded from my github page [4].
>
> Do note that CLaSH only works when you have the 6.12.* branch of GHC
> installed! I am currently analyzing the impact of the GHC API changes made
> in the 7.0.* brach, and hope to make the transition to the new API within
> the next month. Although the compiler is already used by 2 other phd's in
> our group [5], it is not a thoroughly tested product, so your coding style
> might not be anticipated by the current version of CLaSH ;-)
>
> -- Christiaan Baaij
>
>
> [1] There is hard-coded support for a set of recursively defined
> higher-order functions such as map, fold, zipWith, etc.
> [2] http://clash.ewi.utwente.nl
> [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/clash-0.1.3.0
> [4]
> http://github.com/christiaanb/DE1-Cyclone-II-FPGA-Board-Support-Package
> [5] http://caes.ewi.utwente.nl
> [6] Simulation does not show meta-stability, you will have to take care of
> synchronization (dual flipflop) yourself
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