Alibaba: Innovating Agile Hardware Development with Catapult HLS

The high cost and lengthy development cycle of chip design have significantly impeded innovation in the industry. Recent advancements in hardware description languages, domain-specific hardware accelerators, and AI-assisted EDA tools are propelling the chip design methodology towards a new era. This talk will showcase Alibaba's efforts to revolutionize agile chip development technologies on the IP and SoC levels using Catapult HLS.