Chisel (programming language)
| Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language (Chisel) | |
|---|---|
| Paradigms | Multi-paradigm: concurrent, functional, imperative, object-oriented |
| Family | Scala |
| Developer | University of California, Berkeley |
| First appeared | June 2012 |
| Stable release | 3.6.0
/ April 14, 2023 |
| Typing discipline | Inferred, static, strong, structural |
| Scope | Lexical (static) |
| Implementation language | Scala |
| Platform | Java virtual machine (JVM) JavaScript (Scala.js) LLVM (Scala Native) (experimental) |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | www |
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Chisel (an acronym for Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language) is an open-source hardware description language (HDL) used to describe digital electronics and circuits at the register-transfer level.
Chisel is based on Scala as a domain-specific language (DSL). Chisel inherits the object-oriented and functional programming aspects of Scala for describing digital hardware. Using Scala as a basis allows describing circuit generators. High quality, free access documentation exists in several languages.
Circuits described in Chisel can be converted to a description in Verilog for synthesis and simulation.