Engineering notes from autonomous chip-design campaigns, grounded in implementation and verification evidence.
Melten’s agents built a custom PCIe Gen4 x16 interface on an FPGA whose built-in controller stops at Gen3. An encrypted NVMe drive demonstrates 28.4 GB/s reads and Linux boot, with reusable interface, encryption, and search IP for future customer designs.
Directed by one designer, Melten’s design-agent system built an NVMe SSD front end on an AMD Versal FPGA. Over PCIe Gen4 x8 it moved 13.9 GB/s each way and 3.3 million 4 KiB I/Os per second.
Directed by one designer, Melten’s design-agent system built a three-port PCIe Gen4 switch on an AMD Versal FPGA. Two off-the-shelf NVMe SSDs ran through it at 87–99% of their rated speeds.
Melten’s design-agent system re-architected an FPGA NPU for Gemma 4 26B-A4B, routed experts, mixed attention, and 32K context—with 11,226 exact hardware/reference output checks.
Melten’s design-agent system took a human-set requirement through architecture, RTL, software, verification, implementation, lab bring-up, and independent closure in 122 hours.
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