Read Me

OVERVIEW:
This package is a reference implementation of Hardware Description Meta Language, initially developed 
at IBM Corporation's Research Division by Andrew Martin.  

Hardware Description Meta Language is a library of Ocaml functions that implements a shallow embedding of a 
stream-base hardware description language within the Ocaml Programming language. 

CONTENTS:
  INSTALL               instructions for installation
  LICENSE               license and copyright notice
  Makefile.common       common Makefile included by all others
  README                this file
  hdml/                 the library that implements the Hardware Description Meta Language
  p4/                   p4 pre-processor code that allows you to create streams using the << ... >> notation
  examples/             examples of hardware designed in H.D.M.L.
  OCamlMakefile         -- not included in this distribtion. 
                        -- You need to obtain it from http://ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html and place it here.

INSTALLATION:
  see the file INSTALL for instructions for building and installing.

AVAILABILITY:
  The complete H.D.M.L. distribution can be accessed at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/hdml