[jawnv6]

This seems like a pretty egregious misreading of the project?

Python isn't being lowered into silicon. It's a glue language for Boring Old Verilog that's been "compiled" into silicon since 1984.

chip.set('source', 'heartbeat.v')

[IshKebab]

It seems you're right but I also misread it. I think it's badly written. Does this not sound like high level synthesis?

> Process scaling is coming to an end and it is a social imperative that we find a new path to extend the Moore's Law exponential. The most viable option is extreme silicon specialization, which will require fast automated translation from program to silicon. Compiling simple programs into silicon should be like using llvm or gcc

> development should be like programming in Python

It actually seems like it is just a Python EDA build system. Python is still a terrible choice though.

[adapteva]

Expressing a complex project succinctly enough that all of HN will get it within 5sec is an np hard problem...here are the full docs. https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/latest/

[jawnv6]

I don't think the project is putting their best presentation forward, but the second image on the intro makes it pretty clear there's a .v/.sdc/.def file kicking around. Without any relevant tooling to develop, debug, or modify them, but it's clear the python is just shuffling deck chairs.