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About SpinalHDL

SpinalHDL is:

A language to describe digital hardware
Compatible with EDA tools, as it generates VHDL/Verilog files
Much more powerful than VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog in its syntax and features
Much less verbose than VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog
Not an HLS, nor based on the event-driven paradigm
Only generates what you asked it in a one-to-one way (no black-magic, no black box)
Not introducing area/performance overheads in your design (versus a hand-written VHDL/Verilog design)
Based on the RTL description paradigm, but can go much further
Allowing you to use Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming to elaborate your hardware and verify it
Free and can be used in the industry without any license

Get it

SpinalHDL is simply a set of Scala libraries. Include them into your project and you're good to go! If you're unsure about what to do, simply clone one of our example projects (see links above).

SBT (Scala build tool)

scalaVersion := "2.11.12"

libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  "com.github.spinalhdl" % "spinalhdl-core_2.11" % "latest.release",
  "com.github.spinalhdl" % "spinalhdl-lib_2.11" % "latest.release",
  compilerPlugin("com.github.spinalhdl" % "spinalhdl-idsl-plugin_2.11" % "latest.release")
)

You can force SBT to pick a specific SpinalHDL version by replacing latest.release with a specific version. See the SpinalHDL SBT Template project's build.sbt file for a full SBT example.

Gradle

repositories {
	mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
	compile group: 'com.github.spinalhdl', name: 'spinalhdl-core_2.11', version: '1.6.4'
	compile group: 'com.github.spinalhdl', name: 'spinalhdl-lib_2.11', version: '1.6.4'
}

Mill(Build Tool)

import mill._
import mill.scalalib._

object MySpinalModule extends ScalaModule {
  def scalaVersion = "2.11.12"

  def ivyDeps = Agg(
    ivy"com.github.spinalhdl::spinalhdl-core:1.6.4",
    ivy"com.github.spinalhdl::spinalhdl-lib:1.6.4",
  )

  def scalacPluginIvyDeps = Agg(ivy"com.github.spinalhdl::spinalhdl-idsl-plugin:1.6.4")
}

JAR

https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/com/github/spinalhdl/spinalhdl-core_2.11/
https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/com/github/spinalhdl/spinalhdl-lib_2.11/

The files are available on Maven as well.

Change logs

https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SpinalHDL/tags

License

The SpinalHDL core is using the LGPL3 license while SpinalHDL lib and others are using the MIT license. That's for the formalities. But there are some practical statements implied by those licenses:

Your freedoms are:

You can use SpinalHDL core and lib in your closed/commercial projects.
The generated RTL is yours (.vhd/.v files)
Your hardware description is yours (.scala files)

Your obligations (and my wish) are:

If you modify the SpinalHDL core (the compiler itself), please, share your improvements.

Also, SpinalHDL is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind.

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