ChatHLS: Towards Systematic Design Automation and Optimization for High-Level Synthesis (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is a hardware design tool that can be used to design hardware from C-like languages, but its widespread adoption is limited by strict coding constraints and design-specific optimizations. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent HLS design framework that leverages specialized LLMs for automated debugging and directive tuning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms Gemini-3-pro in debugging and speedups across various HLS kernels and neural network accelerators. |
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