This is hard, very hard stuff. Between MLIR, the xla world, most HLS things (generalist stuff leaves a lot of perf on the table and you often end up in vhdl/asm anyway - while specialised stuff is often too restricted...) and the vivado 'let's write HDL/RTL like C', many broke their teeth.

I wish you good luck there, but you're up a huge task. You have all my congrats for going open source, and I think now it's mostly the only way forward. FINN is OSS and I'm very happy to have an OSS alternative. If only old Altera would go full OSS on new AI+FPGA stuff maybe we'd see great cross pollination.

Anyway, if Intel FPGA people aren't watching this, I can assure you they'll be looking soon.