Spade

A work in progress HDL that doesn't make you want to pull your hair out. Taking inspiration from rust and clash, the goal is to make a safer more expressive language than Verilog and VHDL but without sacrificing the ability for low level control of the hardware.

To learn more about the Spade language, see the website at https://spade-lang.org or the language documentation at https://docs.spade-lang.org

Getting started

To get started with Spade, see https://docs.spade-lang.org/introduction.html. You should start by installing Spade and then setting up your editor.

Development and Community

If you are interested in using or contributing to Spade, feel free to join our discord group.

If you want to understand the compiler, the ARCHITECTURE.md document is a good place to start. It gives a high level overview of the inner workings of the compiler.

Spade is currently being developed as an Open Source project at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Linköping university.

License

The spade compiler is licensed under the EUPL-1.2 license.

The spade standard library (all files located in the stdlib directory) is licensed under the terms of both the [MIT license](MIT License) and the Apache License.