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Ruby (hardware description language)

Ruby is a hardware description language designed by Mary Sheeran in 1986 intended to facilitate the notation and development of integrated circuits via relational algebra and functional programming.

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Ruby is a hardware description language designed by Mary Sheeran in 198612 intended to facilitate the notation and development of integrated circuits via relational algebra and functional programming.34567

It should not be confused with RHDL, a hardware description language based on the 1995 Ruby programming language.8

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  1. Mary, Sheeran (1986). Ruby - A Language of Relations and Higher-Order Functions (Technical report). University of Glasgow.
  2. "Ruby". Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  3. Jones, Geraint. "The Ruby relational design language". Department of Computer Science. University of Oxford. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  4. Chen, Gang (2012). "A Short Historical Survey of Functional Hardware Languages". ISRN Electronics. 2012: 1–11. doi:10.5402/2012/271836. ISSN 2090-8679.
  5. Singh, Satnam (1990). "Implementation of a Non-Standard Interpretation System". In Davis, Kei; Hughes, John (eds.). Functional Programming: Proceedings of the 1989 Glasgow Workshop 21–23 August 1989, Fraserburgh, Scotland. Functional Programming 1989. Workshops in Computing. London: Springer. pp. 206–224. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-3166-3_14. ISBN 1-4471-3166-5. ISSN 1431-1682.
  6. Jones, Geraint. "Publications". Department of Computer Science. University of Oxford. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  7. Guo, Shaori; Luk, Wayne (1995). "Compiling Ruby into FPGAs" (PDF). In Moore, Will; Luk, Wayne (eds.). Field-Programmable Logic and Applications: 5th International Workshop, FPL '95 Oxford, United Kingdom, August 29–September 1, 1995 Proceedings. FPL 1995. LNCS. Vol. 975. Berlin: Springer. pp. 188–197. doi:10.1007/3-540-60294-1_112. ISBN 3-540-60294-1. ISSN 0302-9743.
  8. Tomson, Phil (2018-06-10). "philtomson / RHDL". GitHub. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
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