[llvm-dev] Proposal for CIRCT incubator project (original) (raw)

Mehdi AMINI via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jul 7 11:05:13 PDT 2020

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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