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Veryl: A Modern Hardware Description Language

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Veryl

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Veryl is a modern hardware description language.

This project is under the exploration phase of language design. If you have any idea, please open Issue.

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Concepts

Veryl is designed as a "SystemVerilog Alternative". There are some design concepts.

  • Simplified syntax
    • Based on SystemVerilog / Rust
    • Removed traditional Verilog syntax
  • Transpiler to SystemVerilog
    • Human readable SystemVerilog code generation
    • Interoperability with SystemVerilog
  • Integrated tools
    • Formatter / Linter
    • VSCode, vim/neovim integration
    • Package management based on git

Example

// module definition
module ModuleA #(
    parameter  ParamA: u32 = 10,
    localparam ParamB: u32 = 10, // trailing comma is allowed
) (
    i_clk : input  logic,
    i_rst : input  logic,
    i_sel : input  logic,
    i_data: input  logic<ParamA> [2], // `[]` means unpacked array in SystemVerilog
    o_data: output logic<ParamA>    , // `<>` means packed array in SystemVerilog
) {
    // localparam declaration
    //   `parameter` is not allowed in module
    localparam ParamC: u32 = 10;

    // variable declaration
    var r_data0: logic<ParamA>;
    var r_data1: logic<ParamA>;

    // always_ff statement with reset
    //   `always_ff` can take a mandatory clock and a optional reset
    //   `if_reset` means `if (i_rst)`. This conceals reset porality
    //   `()` of `if` is not required
    //   `=` in `always_ff` is non-blocking assignment
    always_ff (i_clk, i_rst) {
        if_reset {
            r_data0 = 0;
        } else if i_sel {
            r_data0 = i_data[0];
        } else {
            r_data0 = i_data[1];
        }
    }

    // always_ff statement without reset
    always_ff (i_clk) {
        r_data1 = r_data0;
    }

    assign o_data = r_data1;
}

Installation

See Document.

Usage

// Create a new project
veryl new [project name]

// Create a new project in an existing directory
veryl init [path]

// Format the current project
veryl fmt

// Analyze the current project
veryl check

// Build target codes corresponding to the current project
veryl build

// Build the document corresponding to the current project
veryl doc

For detailed information, see Document.

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.