Contribute your Bazel build rules to https://github.com/hdl/bazel_rules_hdl?

[mithro]

Hi @renau,

It looks like livehd has a pretty awesome set of Bazel BUILD rules for working with HDL tools like Yosys. A couple of projects would like to start using HDL tools like Yosys with Bazel and hence it would be nice if these rules could be moved to a shared repository like https://github.com/hdl/bazel_rules_hdl -- We can then help maintain the rules, extend support to more tools (like OpenROAD) and generally make the HDL + Bazel ecosystem better!

Would you be interested in doing this and helping collaborate?

Thanks!

Tim 'mithro' Ansell

[renau]

I ll check during the winter break how to pull them out of livehd. We also had some verilator but not updated. I agree that it may be good to simplify integration.

[gravypod]

Hey, I just wanted to chime in and say something like this would be pretty amazing. Having a definitive "one-stop-shop" implementation for synthesis & validation of asics and fpgas would be amazing. I'm a SWE who's interested in learning about hardware design and something like this would make it easier to get started since bazel is relatively simple compared to a lot of the HDL tools I've found online. Having a *_library, *_binary, and *_test rules for hardware would make it much easier to navigate

[renau]

A bit related to run verilog with bazel is this library that I used before
https://github.com/kkiningh/rules_verilator

LiveHD is using bazel to build the tool, not as much to run/elaborate the verilog/chisel

[renau]

@jesec is fixing some of our bazel, and looking at ways to off-load some of the bazel scripts to the common HDL. Hopefully, soon

[renau]

done