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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have experienced significant advancements recently. Nevertheless, challenges persist in the accurate recognition and comprehension of intricate details within high-resolution images. Despite being…

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Traditional compilers operate on a single generic intermediate representation (IR). These IRs are usually low-level and close to machine instructions. As a result, optimizations relying on domain-specific information are either not possible…

The generation of Register-Transfer Level (RTL) code is a crucial yet labor-intensive step in digital hardware design, traditionally requiring engineers to manually translate complex specifications into thousands of lines of synthesizable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hanqi Lyu , Di Huang , Yaoyu Zhu , Kangcheng Liu , Bohan Dou , Chongxiao Li , Pengwei Jin , Shuyao Cheng , Rui Zhang , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Xing Hu , Yunji Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive proficiency on logic and programming tasks, often rivaling expert-level performance. However, generating functionally correct hardware description language (HDL) code from natural…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Matthew DeLorenzo , Kevin Tieu , Prithwish Jana , Piyush Jha , Dileep Kalathil , Vijay Ganesh , Jeyavijayan Rajendran

The rapid scaling of large language model (LLM) training and inference has driven their adoption in semiconductor design across academia and industry. While most prior work evaluates LLMs on hardware description language (HDL) tasks,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Stefan Abi-Karam , Cong Hao

Recent advances in code generation have illuminated the potential of employing large language models (LLMs) for general-purpose programming languages such as Python and C++, opening new opportunities for automating software development and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jiahao Gai , Hao Mark Chen , Zhican Wang , Hongyu Zhou , Wanru Zhao , Nicholas Lane , Hongxiang Fan

Instruction-Level Redundancy (ILR) is a well-known approach to tolerate transient CPU faults. It replicates instructions in a program and inserts periodic checks to detect and correct CPU faults using majority voting, which essentially…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Dmitrii Kuvaiskii , Oleksii Oleksenko , Pramod Bhatotia , Pascal Felber , Christof Fetzer

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly the Large Language Models (LLMs), have profoundly affected our daily work and communication forms. However, it is still a challenge to deploy LLMs on resource-constrained…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Mingqiang Huang , Ao Shen , Kai Li , Haoxiang Peng , Boyu Li , Yupeng Su , Hao Yu

The rise of instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) marks a significant advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) (tailored to respond to specific prompts). Despite their popularity, applying such models to debug security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Mohammad Akyash , Hadi Mardani Kamali

The growing complexity of hardware design and the widening gap between high-level specifications and register-transfer level (RTL) implementation hinder rapid prototyping and system design. We introduce NL2GDS (Natural Language to Layout),…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Max Eland , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Dinesh Pamunuwa , Roshan Weerasekera

The increasing size and complexity of machine learning (ML) models have driven the growing need for custom hardware accelerators capable of efficiently supporting ML workloads. However, the design of such accelerators remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Raymond Baartmans , Andrew Ensinger , Victor Agostinelli , Lizhong Chen

Due to the growing complexity of modern Integrated Circuits (ICs), there is a need for automated circuit design methods. Recent years have seen rising research in hardware design language generation to facilitate the design process. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zehua Pei , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Yu Huang , Bei Yu

High-level synthesis (HLS) allows hardware designers to create hardware designs with high-level programming languages like C/C++/OpenCL, which greatly improves hardware design productivity. However, existing HLS flows require programmers'…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Haocheng Xu , Haotian Hu , Sitao Huang

As program workloads (e.g., AI) increase in size and algorithmic complexity, the primary challenge lies in their high dimensionality, encompassing computing cores, array sizes, and memory hierarchies. To overcome these obstacles, innovative…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jinwei Tang , Jiayin Qin , Nuo Xu , Pragnya Sudershan Nalla , Yu Cao , Yang , Zhao , Caiwen Ding

Transferring composite data structures with variable-length fields often requires designing non-trivial protocols that are not compatible between hardware designs. When each project designs its own data format and protocols the ability to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yongding Tian , Zaid Al-Ars , Peter Hofstee

We present a High-Level Python-based Hardware Description Language (HDPython), It uses Python as its source language and converts it to standard VHDL. Compared to other approaches of building converters from a high-level programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-01-30 R. Peschke , K. Nishimura , G. Varner

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become widely used across diverse NLP tasks and domains, demonstrating their adaptability and effectiveness. In the realm of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), LLMs show promise for tasks like…

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language processing tasks, yet their application in hardware security verification remains limited due to scarcity of publicly available hardware description…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Touseef Hasan , Blessing Airehenbuwa , Nitin Pundir , Souvika Sarkar , Ujjwal Guin

This paper introduces Hardcaml, an embedded hardware design domain specific language (DSL) implemented in the OCaml programming language. Unlike high level synthesis (HLS), Hardcaml allows for low level control of the underlying hardware…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Andy Ray , Benjamin Devlin , Fu Yong Quah , Rahul Yesantharao

Traditionally, digital hardware designs are written in the Verilog hardware description language (HDL) and debugged manually by engineers. This can be time-consuming and error-prone for complex designs. Large Language Models (LLMs) are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jason Blocklove , Shailja Thakur , Benjamin Tan , Hammond Pearce , Siddharth Garg , Ramesh Karri