Zuspec: Pythonic Model-Driven Hardware Development

Zuspec, a portmanteau of zusammen (German for “together”) and specification, is a Python-based multi-abstraction hardware modeling language and a suite of tools for working with Zuspec models.

Abstract - Designing and implementing hardware is challenging, and is getting more difficult each year as systems become more complex. Design and verification teams are looking to boost productivity as a way to keep pace, while also looking for ways to provide models of the design behavior to software teams earlier. The fragmented and esoteric nature of the languages and methodologies used for design and verification only make this more difficult. Zuspec is a unified, extensible Pythonic framework for multi-abstraction hardware modeling that simplifies the design and verification process and enables traditional and AI-driven automation.

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