Overview of Hydra: A Concurrent Language for Synchronous Digital Circuit Design

Hydra is a computer hardware description language that integrates several kinds of software tool (simulation, netlist generation and timing analysis) within a single circuit specification. The design language is inconcurrent, and it offers black box abstraction and general design patterns that simplify the design of circuits with regular structure. Hydra specifications are concise, allowing the complete design of a computer system as a digital circuit within a few pages. This paper discusses the motivations behind Hydra, and illustrates the system with a significant portion of the design of a basic RISC processor.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: John O'Donnell
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, General Design Patterns, Hydra, IPPS 2002, Single Circuit Specification