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| author | Megan Wachs | 2021-03-18 16:47:58 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub | 2021-03-18 16:47:58 -0700 |
| commit | f1ad5b58e8a749d558758288d03ce75bf6b8ff9c (patch) | |
| tree | 2150d6f41a55f81c9f4cf3b037b715cb75ea617f /docs/src/explanations/functional-abstraction.md | |
| parent | 2a56c6540e914611ac12647e157aec4c5c595758 (diff) | |
Reorganize website docs (#1806)
Updates to chisel3 documentation for website:
* guard code examples with mdoc and fix errors encountered along the way
* move some website content here vs splitting the content across two repos
* Bring in the interval-types and loading memories content so that it will be visible from the website
* remove all references to the wiki (deprecated)
* Remove reference to Wiki from the README
* fix tabbing and compile of chisel3-vs-chisel2 section
* Appendix: faqs now guarded and compile
* FAQs: move to resources section
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diff --git a/docs/src/explanations/functional-abstraction.md b/docs/src/explanations/functional-abstraction.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4e3900b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/src/explanations/functional-abstraction.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +layout: docs +title: "Functional Abstraction" +section: "chisel3" +--- + +# Functional Abstraction + +We can define functions to factor out a repeated piece of logic that +we later reuse multiple times in a design. For example, we can wrap +up our earlier example of a simple combinational logic block as +follows: + +```scala mdoc:invisible +import chisel3._ +``` + +```scala mdoc:silent +def clb(a: UInt, b: UInt, c: UInt, d: UInt): UInt = + (a & b) | (~c & d) +``` + +where ```clb``` is the function which takes ```a```, ```b```, +```c```, ```d``` as arguments and returns a wire to the output of a +boolean circuit. The ```def``` keyword is part of Scala and +introduces a function definition, with each argument followed by a colon then its type, +and the function return type given after the colon following the +argument list. The equals (```=})```sign separates the function argument list from the function +definition. + +We can then use the block in another circuit as follows: +```scala mdoc:silent +val out = clb(a,b,c,d) +``` |
