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Large language models (LLMs) hold promise for automating integrated circuit (IC) engineering using register transfer level (RTL) hardware description languages (HDLs) like Verilog. However, challenges remain in ensuring the quality of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhiteng Chao , Yonghao Wang , Xinyu Zhang , Jiaxin Zhou , Tenghui Hua , Husheng Han , Tianmeng Yang , Jianan Mu , Bei Yu , Rui Zhang , Jing Ye , Huawei Li

As hardware systems grow in complexity, security verification must keep up with them. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have started to play an important role in automating several stages of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Khan Thamid Hasan , Md Ajoad Hasan , Nashmin Alam , Md. Touhidul Islam , Upoma Das , Farimah Farahmandi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used for code generation. However, the correctness of code generated by LLMs remains a concern. A potential remedy to this concern is to have LLMs generate formal correctness proofs along with such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nongyu Di , Tianyu Chen , Shan Lu , Shuai Lu , Yeyun Gong , Peng Cheng , Jacob R. Lorch , Yuan Yao , Xiaoxing Ma

Blockchain technology adds records to a list using cryptographic links. Therefore, the security of blockchain smart contracts is among the most popular contemporary research topics. To improve the theorem-proving technology in this field,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Zheng Yang , Hang Lei

High-level synthesis (HLS) has been researched for decades and is still limited to fast FPGA prototyping and algorithmic RTL generation. A feasible end-to-end system-level synthesis solution has never been rigorously proven. Modularity and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Yu Yang , Ahmed Hemani

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a widely used tool in designing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). HLS enables FPGA design with software programming languages by compiling the source code into an FPGA circuit. The source code includes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Weikai Li , Ding Wang , Zijian Ding , Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Zongyue Qin , Jason Cong , Yizhou Sun

Formal verification of complex algorithms is challenging. Verifying their implementations goes beyond the state of the art of current automatic verification tools and usually involves intricate mathematical theorems. Certifying algorithms…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Eyad Alkassar , Sascha Böhme , Kurt Mehlhorn , Christine Rizkallah

OCaml is particularly well-fitted for formal verification. On one hand, it is a multi-paradigm language with a well-defined semantics, allowing one to write clean, concise, type-safe, and efficient code. On the other hand, it is a language…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mário Pereira , António Ravara

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in hardware front-end design using hardware description languages (HDLs). However, their inherent tendency toward hallucination often introduces functional errors into the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kangwei Xu , Grace Li Zhang , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

Verifying the security of masked hardware and software implementations, under advanced leakage models, remains a significant challenge, especially then accounting for glitches, transitions and CPU micro-architectural specifics. Existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Noé Amiot , Quentin L. Meunier , Karine Heydemann , Emmanuelle Encrenaz

Current approaches for formal verification of algorithms face important limitations. For specification, they cannot express algorithms naturally and concisely, especially for algorithms with states and flexible control flow. For…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Chengxi Yang , Shushu Wu , Qinxiang Cao

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based Software-Defined Radio (SDR) is well-suited for experimenting with advanced wireless communication systems, as it allows to alter the architecture promptly while obtaining high performance.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Thijs Havinga , Xianjun Jiao , Wei Liu , Ingrid Moerman

Hardware design verification (DV) is a process that checks the functional equivalence of a hardware design against its specifications, improving hardware reliability and robustness. A key task in the DV process is the test stimuli…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zixi Zhang , Balint Szekely , Pedro Gimenes , Greg Chadwick , Hugo McNally , Jianyi Cheng , Robert Mullins , Yiren Zhao

As the complexity of digital circuits increases, High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is becoming a valuable tool to increase productivity and design reuse by utilizing relevant Electronic Design Automation (EDA) flows, either for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Amalia Artemis Koufopoulou , Kalliopi Xevgeni , Athanasios Papadimitriou , Mihalis Psarakis , David Hely

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is widely treated as the backbone of digital engineering, with languages such as the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) providing the means to capture system structure, behaviour, and verification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Charles Lewis , Amal Elsokary , Siyuan Ji

Despite the transformative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in hardware design, a comprehensive evaluation of their capabilities in design verification remains underexplored. Current efforts predominantly focus on RTL generation…

Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) continue to grow in size and currently contain several millions of gates. At the same time, research effort is going into higher-level hardware synthesis methodologies for reconfigurable computing that can…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Issam Damaj

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is a pivotal electronic design automation (EDA) technology that enables the generation of hardware circuits from high-level language descriptions. A critical step in HLS is Design Space Exploration (DSE), which…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lei Xu , Shanshan Wang , Chenglong Xiao

The problem of synthesis of gate-level descriptions of digital circuits from behavioural specifications written in higher-level programming languages (hardware compilation) has been studied for a long time yet a definitive solution has not…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Dan R. Ghica

FPGAs have become a popular choice for deploying deep learning architectures (DLA). There are many researchers that have explored the deployment and mapping of DLA on FPGA. However, there has been a growing need to do design-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Tolulope A. Odetola , Katie M. Groves , Syed Rafay Hasan