A company behind Bluespec HDL
Bluespec, Inc. is an American semiconductor device electronic design automation company based in Framingham, Massachusetts , and co-founded in June 2003 by computer scientists Arvind Mithal, professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Joe Stoy of Oxford University . Arvind had formerly founded Sandburst in 2000, which specialized in producing chips for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE) routers , for this task.[ 1] [ 2]
Bluespec has two product lines which are primarily for application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware designers and architects. Bluespec supplies high-level synthesis (electronic system-level (ESL) logic synthesis ) with register-transfer level (RTL). The first Bluespec workshop was held on August 13, 2007, at MIT.[ 3]
Bluespec SystemVerilog
Bluespec
Arvind had developed the Bluespec language named Bluespec SystemVerilog (BSV), a high-level functional programming hardware description programming language which was essentially Haskell extended to handle chip design and electronic design automation in general.[ 5] [ 6] Lennart Augustsson . Bluespec is partially evaluated (to convert the Haskell parts) and compiled to the term rewriting system (TRS). It comes with a SystemVerilog frontend.[ 7] Verilog RTL design files.
BSV releases are shipped with the following hardware development kit:[ 8] : 7
BSV compiler
The compiler takes BSV source code as input and generates a hardware description for either Verilog or Bluesim as output. It was opensourced by Bluespec inc. in 2020 under New BSD License terms.
Libraries
BSV is shipped with a set programming idioms and hardware structures
Verilog modulesSeveral primitive BSV elements, such as first in, first out (FIFOs) and processor registers , are expressed as Verilog primitives.
Bluesim
A cycle simulator for BSV designs.
Bluetcl
A collection of Tcl extensions, scripts, and packages to link into a Bluespec design.
References
^ "Arvind elected as India National Academy of Sciences Foreign Fellow" . MIT News ^ Maffei, Lucia (2023-02-09). "Form D Friday: Lexington blood tech startup raises $13.2M" . American City Business Journals . ^ "The First Bluespec Workshop" . csg.csail.mit.edu . Retrieved 2019-05-04 .^ Bluespec Compiler: README.md , retrieved 2022-11-15 ^ "[it] is basically Haskell with some extra syntactic constructs for the term rewriting system (TRS) that describes what the hardware does. The type system has been extended with types of numeric kind." pg 43 of Hudak, Jones, et al. 2007
^ Nikhil, R. (2004). "Lbtorial bluespec systemverilog: efficient, correct RTL from high-level specifications". IEEE: 69–70. doi :10.1109/MEMCOD.2004.1459818 . ISBN 978-0-7803-8509-2 ^ Hudak, Jones, et al. 2007
^ Bluespec SystemVerilog User Guide , Bluespec inc., November 24, 2008
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