alt Hacker News> Isn't translating between languages something that LLMs should excel at?
No, not at all. Unless there is a large amount of training data relevant to the translation then LLMs are likely just to make up nonsense. Chisel is a very niche hardware description language.
Very niche? That's suprising to hear. I'm not in the space, and I know it's not in the big 2/3 (is SystemVerilog distinct from Verilog), but it's been around for 13 years and even DARPA has it on their radar:
> Chisel is mentioned by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as a technology to improve the efficiency of electronic design, where smaller design teams do larger designs. Google has used Chisel to develop a Tensor Processing Unit for edge computing
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisel_(programming_language)#...