Python HDL

This is not my work, but I have taken the code from the Thesis write up and put it into GitHub for easy access.

This is all the work of Ali Mashtizadeh.

Abstract

This thesis presents PHDL, a new hardware design language (HDL). In PHDL digital hardware components can vary in input/output widths, target platform, and have optional inputs and outputs. PHDL enables developers to write software to make intelligent compile time decisions far beyond the capabilities of current HDLs. The approach taken is to build PHDL on the Python scripting language and to build a component library sufficiently large to design a microprocessor. As an example a microprocessor is designed in PHDL to show the practicality of the language. The example shows that on average designs can be written with less complexity than a corresponding Verilog implementation, while achieving better portability and platform specific optimizations.