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POLARIS

Cross-Platform Graphical IDE for SAPHO

POLARIS was a lightweight, cross-platform IDE for the SAPHO ecosystem, built on Tauri and Rust with a Monaco Editor frontend. It brought the YANC compiler, the PRISM RTL viewer and the YAWT wave tracer together in one native application for Linux and Windows. It is no longer in active development; its role has since passed to AURORA, the current IDE for SAPHO.

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Windows Linux Tauri + Rust Monaco Editor Open Source Archived

Key Features

Tauri + Rust backend

Native system calls with a WebView frontend. Starts in under one second, with a memory footprint around 60 MB.

Monaco Editor

The same editor engine powering VS Code. Provides syntax highlighting, IntelliSense-style completions, and a fully featured CMM language extension.

Integrated YANC Compiler

Compiles CMM → Assembly → Hex through cmmcomp and asmcomp with a click. Error diagnostics surface inline in the editor margin.

PRISM RTL Viewer

Embedded RTL schematic renderer. Displays the synthesised netlist graph of the designed processor without leaving the IDE.

YAWT Wave Tracer

Waveform viewer for simulation results, built directly into the IDE with no external GTKWave dependency.

Native Linux and Windows

Distributed as self-contained installers for both platforms. No runtime dependencies required on the target machine.

Typical Workflow

Write CMM

Use Monaco Editor with CMM syntax highlighting and auto-completion.

Compile via YANC

One click runs cmmcomp → asmcomp; errors surface in the editor gutter.

Simulate with YAWT

Run the simulation and inspect signal waveforms in the built-in Wave Tracer.

View RTL in PRISM

Inspect the synthesised netlist graph without leaving the IDE.

Deploy to FPGA

Flash the .hex output to the target FPGA board from the IDE's terminal panel.

Screenshots

POLARIS IDE — CMM editor
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PRISM RTL Viewer + YAWT waveforms
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Who worked on it

POLARIS was built by undergraduate researchers at NIPS-CERN, under the coordination of Prof. Luciano Manhães de Andrade Filho.

Chrysthofer Afonso

Application and integration with the SAPHO toolchain.

GitHub

Gabriel de Aquino Torres

Graphical interface and the YAWT wave tracer.

GitHub

POLARIS on GitHub

POLARIS is archived, but the source and its last releases stay online. You can still read the code, clone it, or build from source with cargo tauri build.

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