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by clhodapp 901 days ago
... these kind of languages don't allow you to describe the hardware you want exactly, they only allow you to describe their functionality and then they generate a hardware for said functionality.

It is a common misconception that Chisel is yet another high level synthesis language with these drawbacks, however it is not. It simply allows you to write your own high level abstractions on top of exact low-level synthesis primitives.