On embedding a microarchitectural design language within Haskell
Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming
ICFP '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming
Quick piping: a fast, high-level model for describing processor pipelines
Proceedings of the joint conference on Languages, compilers and tools for embedded systems: software and compilers for embedded systems
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Haskell
Synthesis of operation-centric hardware descriptions
Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Overview of Hydra: A Concurrent Language for Synchronous Digital Circuit Design
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Deductive Hardware Design: A Functional Approach
Proceedings of the ESPRIT Working Group 8533 on Prospects for Hardware Foundations: NADA - New Hardware Design Methods, Survey Chapters
Client-Side Web Scripting with HaskellScript
PADL '99 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages
PADL '00 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages
Combining Stream-Based and State-Based Verification Techniques
FMCAD '00 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
Functional Design Using Behavioural and Structural Components
FMCAD '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
Symbolic Functional Evaluation
TPHOLs '99 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics
Symbolic Simulation of Microprocessor Models using Type Classes in Haskell
CHARME '99 Proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods
A Higher-Level Language for Hardware Synthesis
CHARME '01 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods
Directions in Functional Programming for Real(-Time) Applications
EMSOFT '01 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Embedded Software
Elementary Microarchitecture Algebra
CAV '99 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Recursive Function Definition over Coinductive Types
TPHOLs '99 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics
Hardware Synthesis Using SAFL and Application to Processor Design
CHARME '01 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods
Hume: a domain-specific language for real-time embedded systems
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
High-level optimization of pipeline design
HLDVT '03 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Workshop on High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop
A reflective functional language for hardware design and theorem proving
Journal of Functional Programming
Parallel algorithms development for programmable logic devices
Advances in Engineering Software
Towards formally verifiable resource bounds for real-time embedded systems
ACM SIGBED Review - Special issues on workshop on innovative techniques for certification of embedded systems
A history of Haskell: being lazy with class
Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming
Parallel algorithms development for programmable devices with application from cryptography
International Journal of Parallel Programming
DSL '09 Proceedings of the IFIP TC 2 Working Conference on Domain-Specific Languages
Type-safe observable sharing in Haskell
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Haskell
Low-level programming in Hume: an exploration of the HW-Hume level
IFL'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Implementation and application of functional languages
A calculus for hardware description*
Journal of Functional Programming
Processor design using a functional hardware description language
Microprocessors & Microsystems
Hardware design with generalized arrows
IFL'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages
Synchronous digital circuits as functional programs
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Modern microprocessors require an immense investment of time and effort to create and verify, from the high-level architectural design downwards. We are exploring ways to increase the productivity of design engineers by creating a domain-specific language for specifying and simulating processor architectures. We believe that the structuring principles used in modern functional programming languages, such as static typing, parametric polymorphism, first-class functions, and lazy evaluation provide a good formalism for such a domain-specific language, and have made initial progress by creating a library on top of the functional language Haskell. We have specified the integer subset of an out-of-order, superscalar DLX microprocessor, with register-renaming, a reorder buffer, a global reservation station, multiple execution units, and speculative branch execution. Two key abstractions of this library are the signal abstract data type (ADT), which models the simulation history of a wire, and the transaction ADT, which models the state of an entire instruction as it travels through the microprocessor.