John Abbe (aka Slow)
Grumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Question to the AI-code folks...
Since CPUs and FPGAs are written in languages like VHDL and Verilog, are the HW folks getting any traction using AI-generated code?
If not, why not?
skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸@grumble209 IMO unfortunately, it is getting traction.
@felipe For test benches or for synthesizable stuff? Back when I was a lad, synthesis was new, and the tools were picky. We were really careful writing code to get exactly what we were expecting - half was the tools were dumb, and half was that we wanted specific structure in the chosen architecture.
I knew a guy who so distrusted the synthesis tools that his multi-FPGA chromakey product was laid out using the vendor's 7400 and 4000 series logic blocks. It was quite the effort.
Are transistors so cheap and plentiful that AI-generated slop is acceptable?
@grumble209 what I see is, of the AI usage, which I estimate to be around 5% to 10% of what people are doing, about 90% is testing, converting data, and plotting data. But there is AI synthesis going on.
Nothing taped out yet though... lets see in 5 years if computers still computing.