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Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing industries by enhancing efficiency, scalability, and innovation. This paper investigates the potential of LLMs in automating Computer-Aided Design (CAD) workflows, by integrating FreeCAD with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sumit Kumar , Sarthak Kapoor , Harsh Vardhan , Yao Zhao

This work investigates the potential of tailoring Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically GPT3.5 and GPT4, for the domain of chip testing. A key aspect of chip design is functional testing, which relies on testbenches to evaluate the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jitendra Bhandari , Johann Knechtel , Ramesh Narayanaswamy , Siddharth Garg , Ramesh Karri

Innovative Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions are important to meet the design requirements for increasingly complex electronic devices. Verilog, a hardware description language, is widely used for the design and verification of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Enrique Dehaerne , Bappaditya Dey , Sandip Halder , Stefan De Gendt

Board-level hardware description languages (HDLs) are one approach to increasing automation and raising the level of abstraction for designing electronics. These systems borrow programming languages concepts like generators and type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Richard Lin , Björn Hartmann

Recent advances in attention-based artificial intelligence (AI) models have unlocked vast potential to automate digital hardware design while enhancing and strengthening security measures against various threats. This rapidly emerging field…

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) remains heavily reliant on tool command language (Tcl) scripting to drive complex RTL-to-GDSII flows. This scripting-based paradigm is labor-intensive, error-prone, and difficult to scale across large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yiyi Lu , Hoi Ian Au , Junyao Zhang , Jingyu Pan , Guanglei Zhou , Yiting Wang , Jingwei Sun , Ang Li , Jianyi Zhang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

The paper addresses advancements in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and digital chip design, highlighting the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automating hardware description and design. LLMs, known for generating…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Aditya Patra , Saroj Rout , Arun Ravindran

In the domain of chip design, Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) play a pivotal role. However, due to the complex syntax of HDLs and the limited availability of online resources, debugging HDL codes remains a difficult and time-intensive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xufeng Yao , Haoyang Li , Tsz Ho Chan , Wenyi Xiao , Mingxuan Yuan , Yu Huang , Lei Chen , Bei Yu

In the realm of ASIC engineering, the landscape has been significantly reshaped by the rapid development of LLM, paralleled by an increase in the complexity of modern digital circuits. This complexity has escalated the requirements for HDL…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Emil Goh , Maoyang Xiang , I-Chyn Wey , T. Hui Teo

Automating hardware (HW) security vulnerability detection and mitigation during the design phase is imperative for two reasons: (i) It must be before chip fabrication, as post-fabrication fixes can be costly or even impractical; (ii) The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Mohammad Akyash , Hadi Mardani Kamali

As hardware design complexity escalates, there is an urgent need for advanced automation in electronic design automation (EDA). Traditional register transfer level (RTL) design methods are manual, time-consuming, and prone to errors. While…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Mohammad Akyash , Kimia Azar , Hadi Kamali

The integration of a complex set of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools to enhance interoperability is a critical concern for circuit designers. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have showcased their exceptional…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhuolun He , Haoyuan Wu , Xinyun Zhang , Xufeng Yao , Su Zheng , Haisheng Zheng , Bei Yu

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

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

Test and verification are essential activities in hardware and system design, but their complexity grows significantly with increasing system sizes. While Behavior Driven Development (BDD) has proven effective in software engineering, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Rolf Drechsler , Qian Liu

This report distills the discussions and recommendations from the NSF Workshop on AI for Electronic Design Automation (EDA), held on December 10, 2024 in Vancouver alongside NeurIPS 2024. Bringing together experts across machine learning…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in general-purpose code generation. However, generating the code which is deeply hardware-specific, architecture-aware, and performance-critical, especially for massively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Wentao Chen , Jiace Zhu , Qi Fan , Yehan Ma , An Zou

Electronic design engineers are challenged to find relevant information efficiently for a myriad of tasks within design construction, verification and technology development. Large language models (LLM) have the potential to help improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Luyao Shi , Michael Kazda , Bradley Sears , Nick Shropshire , Ruchir Puri

As IC design grows more complex, automating comprehension and documentation of RTL code has become increasingly important. Engineers currently should manually interpret existing RTL code and write specifications, a slow and error-prone…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hung-Ming Huang , Yu-Hsin Yang , Fu-Chieh Chang , Yun-Chia Hsu , Yin-Yu Lin , Ming-Fang Tsai , Chun-Chih Yang , Pei-Yuan Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in various engineering tasks, including software development, digital logic generation, and companion document maintenance. However, their ability to perform board-level…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Weibo Qiu , Yinhao Xiao , Runyu Pan