X-Git-Url: https://git.stderr.nl/gitweb?p=matthijs%2Fmaster-project%2Freport.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Outline;h=bbcf46ad914c0e12a0a8615ef1786b1ff3c53db7;hp=074f6a6105a1ee1b20fa1944352d8f685b5717df;hb=e1224b075420c7bb5508121b694e8b315b835534;hpb=72edba19e4b745b8aa064ebd4f105d01a6055d8b diff --git a/Outline b/Outline index 074f6a6..bbcf46a 100644 --- a/Outline +++ b/Outline @@ -8,45 +8,55 @@ Introduction Haskell as hardware * Simple function -> component interpretation (Model: Structure) +* Choice / Case +* Types * Partial application * Model: State * Explicit vs implicit passing of state (e.g, delay) * Explicit vs implicit marking * Interpret: Polymorphism * Interpret: Higher order - Need: Dependent types * Recursion - Impossible things: Infinite recursion, higher order expressions, - recursive types, ... Prototype * Choice of Haskell - VHDL / Verilog / EDIF etc. Why VHDL? +* VHDL / Verilog / EDIF etc. Why VHDL? * Stages (-> Core, Normalization, -> VHDL) -. Core - description of the language (appendix?) +. Core - description of the language +* Expressions + Typing Implementation issues -- Which? State annotations - Haskell language coverage / constraints - Recursion - Builtin types - Custom types (Sum types, product types) - Function types / higher order expressions - State type -> Anything representable - Normalization * Normal form * Rules used . Properties / Proofs (termination, soundness, completeness, determinism) - Casts / Strictness / Casebinders not fully supported Future work -. Boilerplate reduction (State distribution & pipelining) +* Boilerplate reduction (State distribution & pipelining) * Recursion * Multiple time domains (Events) -- Also, clock line optimization / -- write enable * Multiple cycle descriptions * Higher order state * New language +* Don't care TODO: Define user / developer +TODO: Hardware description / model vs program +TODO: Separate compilation / Prelude +TODO: User-defined type classes (future work?) +TODO: Entity / Architecture / Component vs Function? +TODO: Expand on "representable" +TODO: Register +TODO: Variable vs binder +TODO: simplification -> Normalisation? +TODO: Use saturated (application) instead of complete (application)? +TODO: core => Core +TODO: Say something about implementation differences with transformation specs +TODO: Say something about the builtin functions somewhere (ref: christiaan) +TODO: Future work: Use Cλash +TODO: Abstract +TODO: Preface +TODO: Top level function -> top level binder