Highly Extensible Hardware Description Library for JavaScript Developers
Hardware is event-driven. And it is functional in nature, having abstractions on abstractions.
Makes sense to have JavaScript emulate it doesn't it?
Hardware Description can be fun and very educational, but I had to learn VHDL to be able to do so.
Hence, being a JavaScript Enthusiast, I decided to write this library down for JavaScript Developers who wanted to get into Hardware Description but were reluctant to learn a new language for it.
For people not acquainted with both VHDL and JS, I'm pretty sure the learning curve would be lesser for this library. Although I cannot state that my library is better as it is not easy to compete with a language intended for hardware description, nevertheless, I will keep on hacking this library to see how this experiment goes.
Let's get to business!
Use existing abstractions seemlessly.
Let's plug in an AND-Gate
// provision wires to connect to your hardware
let a = wires(1)
let b = wires(1)
let output = wires(1)
// initialise the hardware
let myAndGate = new AndGate(a, b, output)
// wrap hardware in a I/O BlackBox
let ioHandler = new StringIO(myAndGate)
console.log(ioHandler.input('1', '1')) // prints 1
console.log(ioHandler.input('0', '0')) // prints 0Or maybe we need a four input AND-Gate. Let's build it from existing abstractions
class FourInpAndGate() {
constructor(a, b, c, d, o) {
super(a,b,c,d,o)
this.internalWiring = wires(2) // declare wires to be used internally
this.components.push(new AndGate(a, b, this.internalWiring[0]))
this.components.push(new AndGate(c, d, this.internalWiring[1]))
this.components.push(new AndGate(this.internalWiring[0], this.internalWiring[1], o))
}
}
let a = wires(1)
let b = wires(1)
let c = wires(1)
let d = wires(1)
let o = wires(1)
let fourInpAnd = new FourInpAndGate(a, b, c, d, o)
let ioHandler = new StringIO(fourInpAnd)
console.log(ioHandler('0', '1', '1', '1')) // prints 0
console.log(ioHandler('1', '1', '1', '1')) // prints 1There are just so many possibilities to do here! Would love to get contributions from the community 😄
I'll be taking a while to document this properly. Please bear with me or play around with my code to figure it o 5B29 ut yourself 😏