add Barefoot networks (or Intel)
vindarel opened this issue · 1 comments
I work as a contractor at Intel where I help maintain an internal design tool written in Common Lisp.
It's called Meta. It was written by a guy named Pat Bosshart who was a co-founder of a startup named Barefoot networks which was acquired by Intel, so it is not an Intel-developed tool (the culture at Intel is not the sort that would produce this kind of innovation, so if you were going to add it to an "awesome Lisp company" list you might want to list it under Barefoot Networks rather than Intel.). The best source of information about it is a talk that Pat gave at the Bay Area Lisp users group (BALispers) a few years back. That talk was recorded, so it's probably on the web somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment. AFAIK that is the only publicly available information about it.
Meta is a general-purpose chip design tool that is centered on a domain-specific language (also called Meta) which uses a Lispy syntax for doing what is normally done by VHDL or Verilog. But because it's Lispy, it's much more powerful and extensible.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/oq884e/how_do_you_use_lisp_at_work/h6d8xcw/