The Spade Hardware Description Language

enum MaybeByte {
    Some{value: uint<8>Type used to represent unsigned integers. The generic parameter (<N>) specifReturns the value of the first branch if the condition is true, otherwise the second branch.
Note that unlike software languages, Spade does not have conditional execution. You do not conditionally assign values inside if expressiosn, you compute a value and return it.ies the number of bits},
    None
}

fnFunctions together with entityEntities together with fn and pipelineDefines a pipeline. The number in in the parentheses is input-to-output latency of the pipeline. are the basic building blocks of Spade circuits. Unlike fn, entity can contain registers and therefore have state and unlike pipelineDefines a pipeline. The number in in the parentheses is input-to-output latency of the pipeline., they do not have a statically known latency or pipelineDefines a pipeline. The number in in the parentheses is input-to-output latency of the pipeline. structure. and pipelineDefines a pipeline. The number in in the parentheses is input-to-output latency of the pipeline. are the basic building blocks of Spade circuits. Unlike entities and pipelines, functions have no internal state, they are combinational (pure). byte_or_zero(in: MaybeByte) -> uint<8>Type used to represent unsigned integers. The generic parameter (<N>) specifReturns the value of the first branch if the condition is true, otherwise the second branch.
Note that unlike software languages, Spade does not have conditional execution. You do not conditionally assign values inside if expressiosn, you compute a value and return it.ies the number of bits {
    match in {
        // Bind the inner value to a new variable and return it
        MaybeByte::Some(value) => value,
        MaybeByte::None => 0,
    }
}