Gait

An interactive, object-oriented hardware description language (HDL).

Warning
This is a very work-in-progress prototype.

Influenced by many languages and systems including: Clojure, Bel, Smalltalk, GRAIL, SystemVerilog and Bass.

Road map

• Initial simulator (machine API)
• Module collections (i.e. namespaces)
• Simulator server (message passing with RSocket over WebSockets + CBOR?)
• External libraries (+ package management?)
• IDE (C# Godot? Something else?)
• Standard library
• Optimiser
• Netlist generation
• Load onto an FPGA

Out of scope

• Compile to Verilog, SystemVerilog or VHDL. (Use Clash instead.)
• Textual interface/language.
• Backwards compatibility with other systems and tools.
• Support for a wide range of FPGAs.

Legal

Copyright © Alex Vear.

Gait is available under the terms of the Mozilla Public License v2.0. A full copy of the MPL 2.0 can be found in the accompanying LICENCE file.