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A structured approach to VLSI design

Thursday 21st February, 12pm - 1pm, CS1.01 Computer Science

Seminar Abstract from Dan Ghica:

I propose a new technique for hardware synthesis from higher-orderfunctional languages with imperative features based on Reynolds'syntactic Control of Interference. The affine type system is useful for managing the thorny issue of sharing in physical circuits. We use a semantic model inspired by game semantics and the geometry of interaction, and express it directly as a certain class of digital circuits that form a cartesian, monoidal-closed category. Based on this theoretical foundation we introduce a new ANSI C to hardware compiler and we discuss some methodological issues regarding the role of higher order programming languages in hardware design.

 

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