It's a neat idea, but to me, that's like it. For SW, LLVM serves two-way: 1)target any (supported) arch you like with your language of choice, 2)customize your

It's a neat idea, but to me, that's like it. For SW, LLVM serves two-way: 1)target any (supported) arch you like with your language of choice, 2)customize your toolchain to generate native machine code (i.e. GPU shader langauges) from any (supported) language. I'd say putting yet another middleman between your logic compiler/netlist and what you actually use is not the best course of action for HW implementations. Even HLS has a big friction for use and is hardly picked up, with its obvious, immediate advantages.