Agent Factories: When More AI Means Better Hardware
Button. That was the promise of High-Level Synthesis: write a high-level program, push it through the toolchain, and receive efficient hardware without spending the afternoon whispering to pragmas like a medieval engineer negotiating with silicon spirits. The button never quite arrived. HLS did raise the abstraction level from RTL to C/C++. But performance still depends on expert choices: where to pipeline, where not to pipeline, which arrays to partition, which loops to unroll, which memory access pattern is quietly sabotaging the whole design. The code looks like software; the reasoning remains hardware. ...
