[llvm-dev] Proposal for CIRCT incubator project

[Stella Laurenzo via llvm-dev]

I'm really looking forward to this/supportive.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 11:05 AM Mehdi AMINI via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hey Stephen,
>
> I'm very positive on this project joining the incubator. I think extending
> the LLVM project support for applying compiler infrastructure and
> techniques to hardware design is very interesting!
> This is also a fantastic application for MLIR, and it will (and already
> did) influence the development of the framework.
>
> Looking forward to this!
>
> --
> Mehdi
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:30 PM Stephen Neuendorffer via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> For the past several months, members of the ‘CIRCT’ group have been
>> working to begin adapting MLIR for hardware design.  We believe that this
>> area would benefit from good open source infrastructure enabling research
>> and, eventually, the next generation of commercial tools.  We have
>> collected several dialects and envision a number of lowering flows using
>> these dialects.  We have reached the point where we are ready to share our
>> ideas more widely and would like to be considered as an LLVM incubator
>> project.
>> Our code exists at https://github.com/circt as an out-of-tree MLIR
>> project and our group charter can be found at
>> https://github.com/circt/circt/blob/master/README.md.   We have weekly
>> discussions with a group of about 20 people from Xilinx, SiFive, Microsoft,
>> PNNL, ETH Zurich, EPFL, Stanford, and Cornell, and welcome additional
>> contributions.  This project is still early and we see many elements as
>> highly experimental.  At the same time, we feel that the only way to vet
>> these ideas is to build larger systems which will likely take some time and
>> community investment. The LLVM incubator process would be a good way to
>> help us organize this effort.
>>
>> Steve Neuendorffer
>> Xilinx Research Labs
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