[llvm-dev] Proposal for CIRCT incubator project

[Mehdi AMINI via llvm-dev]

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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