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Designing hardware is like writing music for an orchestra - lots of pieces have to come together at the correct time for everything to work. In systems design, there is a confusing array of standards for allowing cooperating components, and little type-level support in traditional design methodologies for helping connect components with pre-arranged protocols. In this paper, we explore bringing protocol-level types to communicating processes. Inside our hardware description language Kansas Lava we introduce the notation of a patch, which is a communicating component with well-understood protocols. We build a theory round the notion of patches, which we call patch logic, and then use the patch abstraction to build a small driver for an FPGA board.
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Gill, A., Neuenschwander, B. (2012). Handshaking in Kansas Lava Using Patch Logic. In: Russo, C., Zhou, NF. (eds) Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages. PADL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7149. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27694-1_16
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