# Designing Yet anOther hardware Description Language (YODL)

- Institution: CERN
- Department: IT Lightning Talks (ITLT)
- Speaker: Nathan Soufflet
- Year: 2025
- Language: English
- Subjects: Languages and linguistics
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3023337)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Over the past few months, I set out to understand how hardware designs can be expressed through software — by building my own Hardware Description Language, YODL. In this talk, I'll share what I learned along the way, from translating high-level circuit descriptions to the low-level representations that ultimately run on FPGAs..

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## Lectures

1. [Designing Yet anOther hardware Description Language (YODL)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3023337/d485a6cec8aa), 11 min (CERN's player)