NVIDIA HORIZON: A Hands-Free Agent that Evolves Git Worktrees and Hits 100% RTL Benchmark Completion
NVIDIA Research introduced HORIZON, a hands-free agent framework for hardware design. It treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution. This research team exercises the register-transfer level (RTL) instantiation. A structured Markdown harness becomes a project pack. A self-contained agent loop then evolves an isolated git worktree. It commits a version only when an executable acceptance gate passes. The research team reports 100% completion across every evaluated RTL benchmark s
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HORIZON is an autonomous agent framework that designs hardware by treating the process as continuous code evolution within a version-controlled repository rather than one-shot code generation. The framework uses a structured input called a Markdown harness containing goals and evaluation criteria, then iteratively edits hardware design files, runs testing tools like simulators and assertion checkers, and commits changes only when they pass acceptance criteria. This matters because hardware design requires correctness across multiple dimensions including cycle-level behavior and simulator feedback, which single-turn code generation cannot reliably achieve. The research team reports achieving 100% completion across all evaluated benchmark suites, though they note that agentic hardware design is not yet a solved problem overall.
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