[wcrichton]

We're starting a project at Stanford to solve just this problem! The Agile Hardware Center: https://aha.stanford.edu/

The plan is to have a completely open source toolchain from the HDL to P&R.

[nickpsecurity]

Your lab has some interesting publications. Doing good work. Appreciate you taking time to try to solve the FPGA problem. Here's a few related works in case you want to build on or integrate with them:

https://github.com/haojunliu/OpenFPGA

https://www.synflow.com/#home-Synflow

http://legup.eecg.utoronto.ca/

The Leon3 GPL SoC might also make a good test case for you since they're designed for easy customization. Lots of academics use it for experiments.

http://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/processors/leon3