I guess this appears to be a more general question. I've seen that many people are using chisel for their HLS HDL, is there a similar effort towards using bluespec or a reason why people have been gravitating to one over the other?
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Anish
04/13/2021, 9:45 PM
neither of those are HLS tools...
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Siddharth Joshi
04/13/2021, 9:45 PM
I meant HDLs, not HLS
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Anish
04/13/2021, 9:45 PM
ah,
chisel is even more abstracted than bluespec-verilog
and since it's built upon scala, it's very easy to extend and use object-oriented (and sometimes functional) design principles to make it easy to compose large designs
plus the large ecosystem of chisel-based designs coming out of UC Berkeley helps a lot too
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Siddharth Joshi
04/13/2021, 9:49 PM
gotcha, when I looked at the flow it seemed to make doing hand-layouts a lot harder but I guess if you're mostly automated that would make a lot of sense. Thanks!