🛠️ Booley – open-source IDE for agentic chip design
Summary
Booley is an open-source IDE for agentic chip design that integrates open-source EDA tools and agent CLIs into a single sandbox using VS Code as the GUI. It allows AI agents to interact with EDA tools via MCP, inspect waveforms using a custom CLI binary, and operate within deterministically enforced criteria.
Why it’s interesting
It addresses specific friction points of using AI agents for hardware design, such as handling concurrent SystemVerilog blocks, running heavy EDA checks, and inspecting waveforms without relying on visual data.
Target user
Digital design engineers
Source metrics: Points 3 · Comments 0
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Summary
Booley is an open-source IDE for agentic chip design that integrates open-source EDA tools and agent CLIs into a single sandbox using VS Code as the GUI. It allows AI agents to interact with EDA tools via MCP, inspect waveforms using a custom CLI binary, and operate within deterministically enforced criteria.
Why it’s interesting
It addresses specific friction points of using AI agents for hardware design, such as handling concurrent SystemVerilog blocks, running heavy EDA checks, and inspecting waveforms without relying on visual data.
Target user
Digital design engineers
Source metrics: Points 3 · Comments 0
HN discussion · Project
Source: #HackerNews / Show HN