Toward Agile Hardware Designs With Chisel: A Network Use Case

Editor’s notes:
Reconfigurable hardware architectures provide fast and flexible solutions in areas that require a quick and stable response. An example is the cloud service provider network that must cope with distributed denial-of-service attacks. This article demonstrates how hardware construction languages, particularly Chisel, enable an agile hardware development methodology using network applications as a use case. —
Umit Ogras, Arizona State University