Nice projects on those links. LegUp <http://legup.eecg.utoronto.ca/> looks good.
I'm new to Julia so this may be a silly question... For that workflow (LLVM IR -> FPGA/ASIC), does Julia already emit IR code? if not, once Julia is able to emit IR code, would it be possible to use a tool like LegUp to create an ASIC? The workflow IR -> ASIC would be a two-steps workflow. While it's a good option, there could be an integrated workflow that would give very interesting possibilities tied to Julia's dynamic nature. Dreaming out loud, at the time we can 3D print microprocessors, if part of our code requires intensive processing and that task could be parallelized, we could 3D print for instance 100 processors of that specific task and Julia spread the work over those 100 ASICs. Or translate the code that requires more computational power dynamically to any available FPGA. On Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:00:15 PM UTC-3, Matt Bauman wrote: > > It seems like there are several groups working on an LLVM IR to FPGA/ASIC > compiler. That'd be the way to do it. Make julia emit the IR, and then > compile that to your ASIC. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3664692/creating-a-vhdl-backend-for-llvm > Google search: llvm ir hardware (asic|fpga) > <https://encrypted.google.com/search?safe=off&hl=en&q=llvm+ir+hardware+%28asic%7Cfpga%29&oq=llvm+ir+hardware+%28asic%7Cfpga%29&gs_l=serp.3...112583.114690.0.114921.7.7.0.0.0.0.154.567.5j2.7.0....0...1c.1.45.serp..7.0.0.jqB_jKu49fw> > > On Thursday, May 29, 2014 5:26:40 PM UTC-4, John Myles White wrote: >> >> If someone wrote code to do that, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. >> >> -- John >> >> On May 29, 2014, at 11:44 AM, David Ainish <david....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 3D printing is growing at a rapid pace and in a few years it will be >> possible to 3D print our own integrated circuits and microprocessors. >> >> Would it be possible for Julia in the future to do Hardware compilation >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_compilation> and 3D print ASICs >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIC> from our Julia code? >> >> >> >>
