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Hydra is a domain-specific language for designing digital circuits, which is implemented by embedding within Haskell. Many features required for hardware specification fit well within functional languages, leading in many cases to a perfect embedding. There are some situations, including netlist generation and software logic probes, where the DSL does not fit exactly within the host functional language. A new solution to these problems is based on program transformations performed automatically by metaprograms in Template Haskell.
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O’Donnell, J.T. (2004). Embedding a Hardware Description Language in Template Haskell. In: Lengauer, C., Batory, D., Consel, C., Odersky, M. (eds) Domain-Specific Program Generation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25935-0_9
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