Charles Papon

A discussion about the current state of FOSS HDL simulation and synthesis tools, and possible paths moving forward.

Other people: Philipp Wagner Tristan Gingold Javier D. Garcia-Lasheras

Since too long we use VHDL and Verilog to describe hardware. SpinalHDL is an alternative language which do his best to prove that is time to do a paradigms shift in hardware description.

SpinalHDL is a Scala library which allow to describe RTL by using object oriented programming and functional programming. This presentation will present basics of SpinalHDL and then show by which way this alternative approach offer a huge benefit in the code clarity, genericity and reusability.