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Automated Verilog code synthesis poses significant challenges and typically demands expert oversight. Traditional high-level synthesis (HLS) methods often fail to scale for real-world designs. While large language models (LLMs) have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Prithwish Basu Roy , Akashdeep Saha , Manaar Alam , Johann Knechtel , Michail Maniatakos , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Ramesh Karri

This paper investigates the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and natural language prompts to generate hardware description code, namely Verilog. Building on our prior work, we employ OpenAI's ChatGPT4 and natural language prompts to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Paola Vitolo , George Psaltakis , Michael Tomlinson , Gian Domenico Licciardo , Andreas G. Andreou

Large language models (LLMs) enable the rapid generation of data wrangling scripts based on natural language instructions, but these scripts may not fully adhere to user-specified requirements, necessitating careful inspection and iterative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jiajun Zhu , Xinyu Cheng , Zhongsu Luo , Yunfan Zhou , Xinhuan Shu , Di Weng , Yingcai Wu

The application of large-language models (LLMs) to digital hardware code generation is an emerging field, with most LLMs primarily trained on natural language and software code. Hardware code like Verilog constitutes a small portion of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Nathaniel Pinckney , Christopher Batten , Mingjie Liu , Haoxing Ren , Brucek Khailany

Recent progress in vision-language models (VLMs) has opened new possibilities for robot task planning, but these models often produce incorrect action sequences. To address these limitations, we propose VeriGraph, a novel framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Daniel Ekpo , Mara Levy , Saksham Suri , Chuong Huynh , Archana Swaminathan , Abhinav Shrivastava

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive potential in generating Verilog codes, but ensuring functional correctness remains a challenge. Existing approaches often rely on self-consistency or simulation feedback to select the best…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zhuorui Zhao , Bing Li , Grace Li Zhang , Ulf Schlichtmann

Large Language Models (LLMs) are gaining popularity for hardware design automation, particularly through Register Transfer Level (RTL) code generation. In this work, we examine the current literature on RTL generation using LLMs and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Paul E. Calzada , Zahin Ibnat , Tanvir Rahman , Kamal Kandula , Danyu Lu , Sujan Kumar Saha , Farimah Farahmandi , Mark Tehranipoor

Large Language Models (LLMs) are gaining prominence in various fields, thanks to their ability to generate high- quality content from human instructions. This paper delves into the field of chip design using LLMs, specifically in Power-…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Kiran Thorat , Jiahui Zhao , Yaotian Liu , Amit Hasan , Hongwu Peng , Xi Xie , Bin Lei , Caiwen Ding

Due to the growing complexity of modern Integrated Circuits (ICs), automating hardware design can prevent a significant amount of human error from the engineering process and result in less errors. Verilog is a popular hardware description…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Chia-Tung Ho , Haoxing Ren , Brucek Khailany

The rapid adoption of large language models(LLMs) in hardware design has primarily focused on generating functionally correct Verilog code, overlooking critical Power Performance-Area(PPA) metrics essential for industrial-grade designs. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kimia Tasnia , Alexander Garcia , Tasnuva Farheen , Sazadur Rahman

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown significant potential for automating hardware description language (HDL) code generation from high-level natural language instructions. While fine-tuning has improved LLMs'…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yi Liu , Changran Xu , Yunhao Zhou , Zeju Li , Qiang Xu

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in hardware description language (HDL) generation. However, existing approaches often rely on free-form natural language descriptions that are often ambiguous, redundant, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Lei Huang , Rui Zhang , Jiaming Guo , Yang Zhang , Di Huang , Shuyao Cheng , Pengwei Jin , Chongxiao Li , Zidong Du , Xing Hu , Yunji Chen , Qi Guo

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

Recently, the use of large language models (LLMs) for software code generation, e.g., C/C++ and Python, has proven a great success. However, LLMs still suffer from low syntactic and functional correctness when it comes to the generation of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Mingzhe Gao , Jieru Zhao , Zhe Lin , Wenchao Ding , Xiaofeng Hou , Yu Feng , Chao Li , Minyi Guo

This paper introduces VisuCraft, a novel framework designed to significantly enhance the capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) in complex visual-guided creative content generation. Existing LVLMs often exhibit limitations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Rongxin Jiang , Robert Long , Chenghao Gu , Mingrui Yan

Code generation has emerged as a critical research area at the intersection of Software Engineering (SE) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), attracting significant attention from both academia and industry. Within this broader landscape,…

Finite State Machines (FSMs) play a critical role in implementing control logic for Systems-on-Chip (SoC). Traditionally, FSMs are implemented by hardware engineers through Verilog coding, which is often tedious and time-consuming.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ziteng Hu , Yingjie Xia , Xiyuan Chen , Li Kuang

Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for automating Verilog code generation; however, existing methods primarily emphasize syntactic correctness and often rely on commercial models or external…

Designing Verilog modules requires meticulous attention to correctness, efficiency, and adherence to design specifications. However, manually writing Verilog code remains a complex and time-consuming task that demands both expert knowledge…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Bardia Nadimi , Ghali Omar Boutaib , Hao Zheng

Traditionally, designs are written in Verilog hardware description language (HDL) and debugged by hardware engineers. While this approach is effective, it is time-consuming and error-prone for complex designs. Large language models (LLMs)…

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