Vijayaraghavan, M., Dave, N., & Arvind. (2013, 18-20 October). Modular compilation of guarded atomic actions. Paper presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE’13), Portland, OR.
Abstract
Over the last decade, Bluespec, a hardware description language of guarded atomic actions, has been used to describe rapidly modifiable, modular, no-compromise hardware designs and generate circuits from them. While the language itself supports significant modularity, the compiler compiles a module with other modules as parameters by in-lining or flattening the module. This forces the user to either suffer large compile times or to change the modular structure of the design. In this paper we propose a new modular compilation scheme which supports compilation of modules with interface methods as parameters and preserves Bluespec’s one-rule-at-a-time semantic model. This compilation process inherently requires the distributed scheduling of rules.
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