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SpinalHDL is a hardware description (HDL) framework embedded in Scala, enabling hardware designers to build digital circuits with modern programming abstractions. Instead of writing in Verilog or VHDL directly, users describe hardware components and their interconnects using Scala code and Spinal’s domain-specific library, which then emits synthesizable hardware (e.g. as Verilog).

Chipyard is a framework and generator for constructing custom RISC‑V SoC hardware. Built at UC Berkeley, it leverages Chisel/FIRRTL to generate full-stack systems—from CPU cores to peripherals—and includes simulators, FPGA deployment tools, and integration with Rocket Chip and other RISC‑V ecosystems.

XiangShan is an open-source, high-performance RISC-V processor project that implements out-of-order superscalar cores using Chisel for hardware construction. The design targets modern performance goals—deep pipelines, speculative execution, multi-issue decode/execute, and sophisticated branch prediction—while remaining synthesizable for ASIC flows and portable to FPGAs for research. A modular microarchitecture separates frontend, backend, and memory subsystems with coherent caches and scalable interconnects, enabling multi-core configurations. ...

...It is capable of booting Linux and running standard benchmarks, and its performance (measured in CoreMarks/MHz) is competitive with commercial cores. The project is intended primarily for hardware/architecture research and teaching, rather than production silicon, and typically is used in conjunction with SoC frameworks (for example via Chipyard) to integrate BOOM into larger systems.