Chipmind Agent John Integrates SHA Core to SoC in 20 Minutes

We asked Chipmind John 🐿️, one of our Chip Design AI Agent Engineers, to add a SHA crypto-core to a System-on-Chip.

Then went for a coffee ☕. By the time we were back, he had done the job.

• ⏱️ Duration: 20 minutes
• 📄 Impact: 15 files changed
• ✅ Status: CI tests passed. Zero human interactions.

John didn't just generate code; he actively navigated an existing chip design environment and EDA tools to complete the integration end-to-end.

What John Accomplished Autonomously:

• 🎯 Protocol Integration: Integrated the core and wrote the necessary OBI-to-AXI bridge.
• 🎯 Verification Expansion: Extended the RTL testbench and firmware tests.
• 🎯 Validation: Successfully ran the simulations and passed the CI tests.
• 🎯 Sign-off: Received a final passing review from a human engineer.

Human Quality at Machine Speed

John doesn't build RTL IP from scratch in isolation. Like all Chipmind Agents, he works directly within your existing designs. By leveraging Chipmind's Agentic Reasoning Engine—fueled by deep domain knowledge and Claude Sonnet as the core LLM—John masters the specific environment and its unique constraints to deliver autonomous, functionally correct design changes.

The quality of results is at a human engineering level, but operating at true machine speed.

Watch the Integration & Explore the Code

Check out 🐿️ John’s "point of view" in the walk-through video below and dive deep into the technical implementation by reviewing the live GitHub pull request:

🔗 View the Live GitHub Pull Request

Kudos to the Croc team  (PULP Platform) and Joachim Strömbergson from Secworks! from Secworks for making this milestone seamless!

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