MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
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MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
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Re: MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
#2The visualizations are stunning!
Re: MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
#3Honestly this is the first time I am seeing this kind of work that i genuinely like. Most fractal and other kinds of self repeating results are not that interesting at all to me.
Re: MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
#4Not really an HDL, as currently it has no concept of actually connecting the nodes. Each edge is an arbitrary number of conductors with no constraints on routing or timing. Curious to see where this goes though
Re: MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
#5I made this comment a few days back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668760
Is this kinda similar in nature?
Re: MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
#6Not really an HDL, as currently it has no concept of actually connecting the nodes. Each edge is an arbitrary number of conductors with no constraints on routing or timing. Curious to see where this goes though
This is the view of an HLD that someone without any actual HLD experience would have.
Re: MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
#7Not really an HDL, as currently it has no concept of actually connecting the nodes. Each edge is an arbitrary number of conductors with no constraints on routing or timing. Curious to see where this goes though
> Although logic connectivity is not layout-dependent in the current prototype, we envision a future where physical proximity directly influences or determines logical connections. In this ultimate view, the circuit behaves like a digital organism whose physical form and logical connections evolve together under local structural constraints.
Re: MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
#8The graphs are beautiful, however they're independent of the language (because they're a visualization of the resulting gates). You could get the same graphs from VHDL or Verilog.
I don't like the "fallback" mechanism, because it will be used when "something goes wrong", without being specific about exactly under what conditions should the fallback happen. Maybe I made a mistake, "something" fails at a step I didn't expect, and this will silently implement in a way I didn't mean (maybe the result is even correct, just using way more gates than needed).
Re: MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
#9Not really an HDL, as currently it has no concept of actually connecting the nodes. Each edge is an arbitrary number of conductors with no constraints on routing or timing. Curious to see where this goes though
> Although logic connectivity is not layout-dependent in the current prototype, we envision a future where physical proximity directly influences or determines logical connections. In this ultimate view, the circuit behaves like a digital organism whose physical form and logical connections evolve together under local structural constraints.
Once any HDL is translated to a bunch of primitives (gates, LUTs, flip-flops, etc), that's the job of an automated place-and-route, which already exist. It's independent of the starting language.