recursive circuit definition

One of the problems with most HDLs is that they do not support recursively defined circuits. It's not too hard to make macros for such things in other languages, but as the circuit size gets too large it becomes impractical to implement. However a mechanism for handling such things would be really useful.

Recursive functional programs map to recursive structural circuits. We want an implementation mechanism for recursively defined circuits that uses continuations at break points to dynamically modify the configware layer. A "dispatch" circuit should also be possibility, depending on a request the dispatch circuit will spawn a new circuit. A lot of the implementation for such a system should follow from the implementation of a concurrent evaluator for a functional language.