Bluespec, Inc.
Bluespec, Inc. is a semiconductor tool design company co-founded by Prof. Arvind of MIT in June 2003. Arvind had previously founded Sandburst in 2000, which specialized in producing chips for 10G-bit Ethernet routers; for this task, Arvind had developed the Bluespec language, a high-level functional hardware description programming language which was essentially Haskell extended to handle chip design and electronic design automation in general. The main designer and implementor of Bluespec was Lennart Augustsson. Bluespec is partially evaluated (to convert the Haskell parts) and compiled to the term rewriting system (TRS). It comes with a SystemVerilog frontend.
Bluespec has two product lines. Primarily for ASIC and FPGA hardware designers and architects, Bluespec supplies high-level synthesis (ESL logic synthesis) with RTL.
The first Bluespec workshop was held on August 13, 2007 at MIT.
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Blazeabago
by: Keller WilliamsTop speed is 30 as we cruise the pass
Feelin kinda dirty as I see the bug wavin on the
winsheild glass
Angry mountiain folk blowin by, flippin the bird
But I'm goin as fast as I can
Angry mountain folk blowing by with the mean word
We even get passed by a wild game heard
N the man says "where do you come from, son?"
But I says "right out back
Wherever I stop and pop the top, that's where it's at."
Up and down, round and round
Back and forth, to and fro
You ask me where I come from son
I live in the blazeabago
Livin on the road don't mean your face on the pavement
Livin on the road don't mean you don't pay rent
You might think livin on the road gets you all bent
But all in all, it's heaven sent
Most of the time it's full of excitement
Other times, it can really blow
I can understand from livin day to day
Cuz I live from show to show
N the man says "where do you come from, son?"
But I says "right out back
Wherever I stop and pop the top, that's where it's at."
Up and down, round and round
Back and forth, to and fro
You ask me where I come from son
I live in the blazeabago
Mountain folk have all made it home
Now that we've hit the peak of the pass
It's a good thing were at the top of this mountain
Cuz that damn pass ate up all of our gas
Put it in nutral and down the hill we go
We got two days to make it to the east coast
Rippin' and roarin' through the hot dry plains
Six weeks later we'll be back here again
N the man says "where do you come from, son?"
But I says "right out back
Wherever I stop and pop the top, that's where it's at."
Up and down, round and round
Back and forth, to and fro
You ask me where I come from son
I live in the blazeabago
Our house, on the side of any street
Our house, on the side of any street
Our house, on the side of any street