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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.32
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50144
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2015/5014/
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Auerbach, Joshua ; Bacon, David F. ; Cheng, Perry ; Fink, Stephen J. ; Rabbah, Rodric ; Shukla, Sunil

Growing a Software Language for Hardware Design

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Abstract

The Liquid Metal project at IBM Research aimed to design and implement a new programming language called Lime to address some of the challenges posed by heterogeneous systems. Lime is a Java-compatible programming language with features designed to facilitate high level synthesis to hardware (FPGAs). This article reviews the language design from the outset, and highlights some of the earliest design decisions. We also describe how these decisions were revised recently to accommodate important requirements that arise in networking and cryptography.

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@InProceedings{auerbach_et_al:LIPIcs:2015:5014,
  author =	{Joshua Auerbach and David F. Bacon and Perry Cheng and Stephen J. Fink and Rodric Rabbah and Sunil Shukla},
  title =	{{Growing a Software Language for Hardware Design}},
  booktitle =	{1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)},
  pages =	{32--40},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-80-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{32},
  editor =	{Thomas Ball and Rastislav Bodik and Shriram Krishnamurthi and Benjamin S. Lerner and Greg Morrisett},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5014},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50144},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Heterogeneous Systems, FPGA, High Level Synthesis, Dataflow, Functional Programming, Streaming, Java}
}

Keywords: Heterogeneous Systems, FPGA, High Level Synthesis, Dataflow, Functional Programming, Streaming, Java
Collection: 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)
Issue Date: 2015
Date of publication: 30.04.2015

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