UC Santa Cruz

This thesis presents the design and implementation of a hardware language, Pyrope. It first describes Pyrope’s distinct language features with their design rationales and compares Pyrope with the mainstream language, SystemVerilog. It then shows the implementation of the Pyrope compilation flow that translates the language specification into low-level intermediate representation in a compiler framework, LiveHD. Several improvements to LiveHD as part of this work are also presented. Finally, the thesis shows the result of compiling an example design written in Pyrope.