Dear enthusiasts of BSV and BH,
I have some very sad news to share with you today.
Our dear friend and colleague Prof. Arvind of MIT passed away this morning, after suffering from Myeloma for some years now.
The central technical idea behind the Bluespec BSV and BH hardware design languages---expressing hardware behavior using atomic rules and compiling it to efficient Verilog---came out of research in the late 1990s by Prof. Arvind and his then PhD student James Hoe.
A later important development in BSV/BH, "Ephemeral History Registers", or "Concurrent Registers", came out of research by Prof. Arvind and his then PhD student Daniel Rosenband.
Arvind founded two companies---Sandburst (in 2000), and Bluespec, Inc. (in 2003)---based on those ideas. ?Some of us have been involved with these companies since 2000 (and still are).
We shall miss Prof. Arvind dearly.
Nikhil
Rishiyur Nikhil