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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) are increasingly used to automate hardware design tasks, including the generation of Verilog code. While early benchmarks focus primarily on functional correctness, efficient hardware design demands additional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Manar Abdelatty , Maryam Nouh , Jacob K. Rosenstein , Sherief Reda

We introduce VeriStruct, a novel framework that extends AI-assisted automated verification from single functions to more complex data structure modules in Verus. VeriStruct employs a planner module to orchestrate the systematic generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Chuyue Sun , Yican Sun , Daneshvar Amrollahi , Ethan Zhang , Shuvendu Lahiri , Shan Lu , David Dill , Clark Barrett

Manual optimization of Register Transfer Level (RTL) datapath is commonplace in industry but holds back development as it can be very time consuming. We utilize the fact that a complex transformation of one RTL into another equivalent RTL…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Samuel Coward , George A. Constantinides , Theo Drane

Agent frameworks increasingly encode tool-using behavior as explicit workflow graphs, yet safety enforcement remains a runtime concern. These frameworks expose analyzable graph structure through their APIs, enabling pre-deployment static…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Melwin Xavier , Vaisakh M A , Melveena Jolly , Midhun Xavier

Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in code generation. However, their ability to create complex visualizations for scaled and structured data remains largely unevaluated and underdeveloped. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jiajun Zhang , Jianke Zhang , Zeyu Cui , Jiaxi Yang , Lei Zhang , Binyuan Hui , Qiang Liu , Zilei Wang , Liang Wang , Junyang Lin

Artificial intelligence systems have achieved remarkable capability in natural language processing, perception and decision-making tasks. However, their behaviour often remains opaque and difficult to verify, limiting their applicability in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Arshad Beg , Diarmuid O'Donoghue , Rosemary Monahan

The automated generation of design RTL based on large language model (LLM) and natural language instructions has demonstrated great potential in agile circuit design. However, the lack of datasets and benchmarks in the public domain…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Shang Liu , Yao Lu , Wenji Fang , Mengming Li , Zhiyao Xie

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

Proof autoformalization, the task of translating natural language theorems and proofs into machine-verifiable code, is a critical step for integrating large language models into rigorous mathematical workflows. Current approaches focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Rafael Cabral , Tuan Manh Do , Xuejun Yu , Wai Ming Tai , Zijin Feng , Xin Shen

Veryl, a hardware description language based on SystemVerilog, offers optimized syntax tailored for logic design, ensuring synthesizability and simplifying common constructs. It prioritizes interoperability with SystemVerilog, allowing for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Naoya Hatta , Taichi Ishitani , Ryota Shioya

Generating SystemVerilog Assertions (SVAs) from natural language specifications remains a major challenge in formal verification (FV) due to the inherent ambiguity and incompleteness of specifications. Existing LLM-based approaches, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yunsheng Bai , Ghaith Bany Hamad , Syed Suhaib , Haoxing Ren

GRAFT is a structured multimodal benchmark designed to probe how well LLMs handle instruction following, visual reasoning, and tasks requiring tight visual textual alignment. The dataset is built around programmatically generated charts and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Abhigya Verma , Sriram Puttagunta , Seganrasan Subramanian , Sravan Ramachandran

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate data analysis through executable code generation. Yet, data science tasks often admit multiple statistically valid solutions, e.g. different modeling strategies, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Qiuhai Zeng , Claire Jin , Xinyue Wang , Yuhan Zheng , Qunhua Li

The synergy between symbolic knowledge, often represented by Knowledge Graphs (KGs), and the generative capabilities of neural networks is central to advancing neurosymbolic AI. A primary bottleneck in realizing this potential is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Adrian Kaiser , Claudiu Leoveanu-Condrei , Ryan Gold , Marius-Constantin Dinu , Markus Hofmarcher

Standard Verification Rule Format (SVRF) is essential for semiconductor applications like Design Rule Check (DRC), Layout Versus Schematic (LVS), and Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) and it faces challenges as advancing nodes create…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Abanoub E. Abdelmalak , Mohamed A. Elsayed , David Abercrombie , Ilhami Torunoglu

Hardware design automation faces challenges in generating high-quality Verilog code efficiently. This paper introduces VFlow, an automated framework that optimizes agentic workflows for Verilog code generation. Unlike traditional approaches…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yangbo Wei , Zhen Huang , Huang Li , Wei W. Xing , Ting-Jung Lin , Lei He

We present the Comprehensive Verilog Design Problems (CVDP) benchmark, a new dataset and infrastructure to advance LLM and agent research in hardware design and verification. CVDP includes 783 problems across 13 task categories, covering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Nathaniel Pinckney , Chenhui Deng , Chia-Tung Ho , Yun-Da Tsai , Mingjie Liu , Wenfei Zhou , Brucek Khailany , Haoxing Ren

The rapid development of AI and LLMs has driven new methods of SDLC, in which a large portion of code, technical, and business documentation is generated automatically. However, since there is no single architectural framework that can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Oleg Grynets , Vasyl Lyashkevych

The paper studies how code generation by LLMs can be combined with formal verification to produce critical embedded software. The first contribution is a general framework, spec2code, in which LLMs are combined with different types of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Minal Suresh Patil , Gustav Ung , Mattias Nyberg