case expressions, if expressions) are well suited to describe conditional
assigment in the hardware.
-Useful features from the functional perspective, like polymorphism and higher
-order functions and expressions also prove suitable to describe hardware
-and our implementation shows that they can be translated to \VHDL as
-well.
+Useful features from the functional perspective, like polymorphism and
+higher-order functions and expressions also prove suitable to describe
+hardware and our implementation shows that they can be translated to
+\VHDL as well.
A prototype compiler was created in this research. For this prototype the
Haskell language was chosen as the input language, instead of creating a new
language from scratch. This has enabled creating the prototype rapidly,
allowing for experimenting with various functional language features and
interpretations in Cλash. Even supporting more complex features like
-polymorphism and higher order values has been possible. If a new language and
+polymorphism and higher-order values has been possible. If a new language and
compiler would have been designed from scratch, that new language would not
have been nearly as advanced as current Cλash.
that hear about using a functional language for hardware description
instantly hope to be able to provide a concise mathematical description
of their algorithm and have the hardware generated for them. Since this
-is obviously a different problem alltogether, we could not have hoped to
+is obviously a different problem altogether, we could not have hoped to
even start solving it. However, hopefully the current Cλash system
provides a solid base on top of which further experimentation with
functional descriptions can be built.
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