Divide, Cache, and Conquer: How Mixture-of-Agents is Rewriting Hardware Design
Opening — Why this matters now As Moore’s Law falters and chip design cycles stretch thin, the bottleneck has shifted from transistor physics to human patience. Writing Register Transfer Level (RTL) code — the Verilog and VHDL that define digital circuits — remains a painstakingly manual process. The paper VERIMOA: A Mixture-of-Agents Framework for Spec-to-HDL Generation proposes a radical way out: let Large Language Models (LLMs) collaborate, not compete. It’s a demonstration of how coordination, not just scale, can make smaller models smarter — and how “multi-agent reasoning” could quietly reshape the automation of hardware design. ...