Veryl: A Modern Hardware Description Language
Veryl is a modern hardware description language.
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Veryl is a hardware description language based on SystemVerilog, providing the following advantages:
Veryl adopts syntax optimized for logic design while being based on a familiar basic syntax for SystemVerilog experts. This optimization includes guarantees for synthesizability, ensuring consistency between simulation results, and providing numerous syntax simplifications for common idioms. This approach enables ease of learning, improves the reliability and efficiency of the design process, and facilitates ease of code writing.
Designed with interoperability with SystemVerilog in mind, Veryl allows smooth integration and partial replacement with existing SystemVerilog components and projects. Furthermore, SystemVerilog source code transpiled from Veryl retains high readability, enabling seamless integration and debugging.
Veryl comes with a rich set of development support tools, including package managers, build tools, real-time checkers compatible with major editors such as VSCode, Vim, Emacs, automatic completion, and automatic formatting. These tools accelerate the development process and significantly enhance productivity.
With these features, Veryl provides powerful support for designers to efficiently and productively conduct high-quality hardware design.
Veryl SystemVerilog
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module Delay #(
parameter int WIDTH = 1
) (
input i_clk ,
input i_rst ,
input [WIDTH-1:0] i_data,
output [WIDTH-1:0] o_data
);
logic unused_variable;
always_ff @ (posedge i_clk or negedge i_rst) begin
if (!i_rst) begin
o_data <= '0;
end else begin
o_data <= i_data;
end
end
endmoduleSystemVerilog is very complicated language, and it causes difficulty of implementing EDA tools for it. As a consequence, major EDA tools only support SystemVerilog subset which is different each other, and users must explore usable languege features which are covered by adopted tools. Additionally, the difficulty prevents productivity improvement by developing support tools. This is a reason that a new language having simplified and sophisticated syntax, not SystemVerilog, is required.
Many existing alt-HDLs are inner DSL of a programming language.
This approach has some advantages like rapid development and resusable tooling ecosystem,
but the syntax can't be fit for hardware description completely.
Additionally, enormous Verilog code is generated from short and sophisticated code in these languages.
This prevents general ASIC workflows like timing improvement, pre/post-mask ECO because these workflows require FF-level modification in Verilog.
Interoperation between these languages and SystemVerilog is challenging because these can't connect to SystemVerilog's type like interface and struct directly.
By these reason, the existing Alt-HDLs can't be used as alternative of SystemVerilog, especially if there are many existing SystemVerilog codebase.
Veryl resolves these problems by HDL-specialized syntax and human-readable SystemVerilog code generation.
Veryl focuses equivalency with SystemVerilog at the point of view of the language semantics. This eases to predict the changes of generated SystemVerilog code from modification of Veryl code, and Veryl can be applied to ASIC workflows like timing improvement and pre/post-mask ECO. Therefore, some features generating FFs are not adopted because these prevent the predictability.
Veryl focuses syntax simplicity because it reduces tool implementation effort. Therefore syntax features which introduce large complexity in exchange for slight abbreviation are not adopted.
Veryl derives its name from the first letter of Verilog and "Beryl", and it is pronounced the same as beryl. The theme color of Veryl comes from emerald, a type of beryl.
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