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Curious to know how well this supports hybrid designs. No-code “IP block” composition is great for some stuff but there’s going to be customisations that aren’t on the standard “blocks”. That said, cool to see this emerge.

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No-code IP block composition using standard interfaces has been a feature of most RTL software suites for almost a decade now. There's a reason it isn't used more widely: once your design gets complicated it gets very unwieldy.

That said, that kind of flow has people who love it.

Yup. Figured as much. Always those pesky edge cases that the no-code stuff never handles well.

Code(RTL, Chisel, C) that can be bundled as a memory mapped IP and turned into a brick integrates really well. The problem is that this reqyuires custom tooling. A full mask set taoeout is going to cost $5M-$10M and take 6 months to complete at a reasonably advanced node.

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