No Viable Python-to-RTL HLS Path for Vendor-Agnostic FPGAs
Embedded engineers targeting non-Xilinx/Intel FPGAs (e.g., Lattice ECP5) have no practical path from Python simulation code to synthesizable RTL via HLS. Existing tools like Polyphony and PyLog either lack floating-point support or produce unusable output for real algorithms like Kalman filters and PID controllers. The gap forces manual RTL rewriting of already-validated Python models.
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