Chisel is an open-source hardware construction language developed at UC Berkeley that supports advanced hardware design using highly parameterized generators and layered domain-specific hardware languages.

Chisel is embedded in the Scala programming language, which raises the level of hardware design abstraction by providing concepts including object orientation, functional programming, parameterized types, and type inference.

Chisel can generate a high-speed C++-based cycle-accurate software simulator, or low-level Verilog designed to pass on to standard ASIC or FPGA tools for synthesis and place and route.

Visit the community website for more information.

This repo contains chisel documentation. Code is kept in a separate repo.

In order to generate the Chisel documentation (html and pdf formats), you'll need the LaTeX tools, tex4ht, texlive, python bs4 BeautifulSoup, imagemagick, and source-highlight.

To generate all the documentation:

$ make

The following apt-get installs should work for ubuntu 14.04 LTS

$ sudo apt-get install python-bs4 python-jinja2 imagemagick source-highlight
$ sudo apt-get install tex4ht texlive-latex-base
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra

On Mac OsX first install MacTeX then use brew

$ brew install miktex
$ brew install imagemagick source-highlight
$ brew install gawk

and then downaload Beautiful Soup from site unpack and run inside the folder

$  python setup.py install