Explanations

Explanation documentation gives background and context. They can also explain why things are so - design decisions, historical reasons, technical constraints.

If you are just getting started with Chisel, we suggest you read these documents in the following order:

• Motivation
• Supported Hardware
• Data Types
• Bundles and Vecs
• Combinational Circuits
• Operators
• Width Inference
• Functional Abstraction
• Ports
• Modules
• Sequential Circuits
• Memories
• Interfaces and Connections
• Black Boxes
• Enumerations
• DataView
• Functional Module Creation
• Muxes and Input Selection
• Multiple Clock Domains
• Reset
• Polymorphism and Parameterization
• Printing in Chisel
• Naming
• Unconnected Wires
• Chisel Type vs Scala Type
• Connectable Operators
• Decoders
• Intrinsic Modules
• Annotations
• Source Locators
• Warnings
• Deep Dive into Legacy Connection Operators
• Properties
• Layers