This is the same slide as before!
The major EDA companies, Synopsys, Cadance and Mentor all heavily pushing C-to-Gates flows.
Altera (Intel) and Xilinx, the FPGA vendors, are now also promoting HLS tools.
Many people remain highly skeptical, but with FPGA in the cloud as a service in 2017 onwards, a whole new user community is garnered.
Success of formal verification means abundance of formal specs for protocols and interfaces: automatic glue synthesis seems highly-feasible.
Synthesis from formal spec - academic interest only ? Except for glue logic.
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