X-Git-Url: https://git.stderr.nl/gitweb?p=matthijs%2Fmaster-project%2Freport.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Chapters%2FPrototype.tex;h=101594bf2a9b4aaacbd210c1242fd968ed0f2fa7;hp=b391d4fcbc6951c2c86af451b805cec8187aae28;hb=05ab912a6a0d53892521265750b313126ab442af;hpb=39d85ed266bd73954be058cd713f16ea9bada3b0 diff --git a/Chapters/Prototype.tex b/Chapters/Prototype.tex index b391d4f..101594b 100644 --- a/Chapters/Prototype.tex +++ b/Chapters/Prototype.tex @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Haskell an obvious choice. \section[sec:prototype:output]{Output format} - The second important question is: What will be our output format? + The second important question is: what will be our output format? This output format should at least allow for programming the hardware design into a field-programmable gate array (\small{FPGA}). The choice of output format is thus limited by what hardware @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ func arg \stoplambda This is function application. Each application consists of two - parts: The function part and the argument part. Applications are used + parts: the function part and the argument part. Applications are used for normal function \quote{calls}, but also for applying type abstractions and data constructors. @@ -516,12 +516,12 @@ A case expression evaluates its scrutinee, which should have an algebraic datatype, into weak head normal form (\small{WHNF}) and - (optionally) binds it to \lam{bndr}. Every alternative lists a - single constructor (\lam{C0 ... Cn}). Based on the actual - constructor of the scrutinee, the corresponding alternative is - chosen. The binders in the chosen alternative (\lam{bndr0,0 .... - bndr0,m} are bound to the actual arguments to the constructor in - the scrutinee. + (optionally) binds it to \lam{bndr}. If bndr is wild, \refdef{wild + binders} it is left out. Every alternative lists a single constructor + (\lam{C0 ... Cn}). Based on the actual constructor of the scrutinee, the + corresponding alternative is chosen. The binders in the chosen + alternative (\lam{bndr0,0 .... bndr0,m} are bound to the actual + arguments to the constructor in the scrutinee. This is best illustrated with an example. Assume there is an algebraic datatype declared as follows\footnote{This @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ Word} and \hs{Word} types by pattern matching and by using the explicit the \hs{State constructor}. - This explicit conversion makes the \VHDL\ generation easier: Whenever we + This explicit conversion makes the \VHDL\ generation easier: whenever we remove (unpack) the \hs{State} type, this means we are accessing the current state (\eg, accessing the register output). Whenever we are a adding (packing) the \hs{State} type, we are producing a new value for @@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ function. Fortunately, the \lam{accs'} variable (and any other substate) has a - property that we can easily check: It has a \lam{State} type + property that we can easily check: it has a \lam{State} type annotation. This means that whenever \VHDL\ is generated for a tuple (or other algebraic type), we can simply leave out all elements that have a \lam{State} type. This will leave just the parts of the state @@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ \stoplambda When we would really leave out the crossed out parts, we get a slightly - weird program: There is a variable \lam{s} which has no value, and there + weird program: there is a variable \lam{s} which has no value, and there is a variable \lam{s'} that is never used. Together, these two will form the state process of the function. \lam{s} contains the "current" state, \lam{s'} is assigned the "next" state. So, at the end of each clock