Tydi-lang: A Language for Typed Streaming Hardware
2022
Online
report
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Transferring composite data structures with variable-length fields often requires designing unique protocols, causing incompatibility issues and decreased collaboration among hardware developers, especially in the open-source community. Because the high-level meaning of a protocol is often lost in translation to low-level languages when a custom protocol needs to be designed, extra documentation is required, the interpretation of which introduces new opportunities for errors. The Tydi specification (Tydi-spec) was proposed to address the issues by codifying the complex structures in a type and providing a standard protocol to transfer typed data among components. This paper presents Tydi-lang, a language that incorporates Tydi-spec for describing typed streams and offers templates for reusable components. An open-source compiler from Tydi-lang to Tydi intermediate representation (Tydi-IR) is implemented, and a Tydi-IR to VHDL compiler is utilized. Through Tydi-lang examples translating high-level SQL to VHDL, we demonstrate its efficiency in raising abstraction levels and reducing design effort.
Comment: 8 pages and 1 page of reference, 4 figures, 4 tables
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Tydi-lang: A Language for Typed Streaming Hardware
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Tian, Yongding ; Reukers, Matthijs A. ; Al-Ars, Zaid ; Hofstee, Peter ; Brobbel, Matthijs ; Peltenburg, Johan ; van Straten, Jeroen |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | report |
DOI: | 10.1145/3624062.3624539 |
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