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This survey explores the integration of machine learning (ML) into EDA workflows for analog and RF circuits, addressing challenges unique to analog design, which include complex constraints, nonlinear design spaces, and high computational…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhengfeng Wu , Ziyi Chen , Nnaemeka Achebe , Vaibhav V. Rao , Pratik Shrestha , Ioannis Savidis

Electronic design engineers often struggle to efficiently access relevant information for tasks like design verification and technology development. While large language models (LLMs) can enhance productivity as conversational agents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Luyao Shi , Michael Kazda , Charles Schmitter , Hemlata Gupta

The semiconductor industry faces a critical "Productivity Gap" where design complexity outpaces human capacity. While the "AI for EDA" revolution (L2) successfully optimized specific point problems, a paradigm shift toward Agentic EDA (L3)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Zelin Zang , Yuhang Song , Aili Wang , Bingo Wing-Kuen Ling , Qi Sun , Zhen Lei , Fuji Yang , Cheng Zhuo , Jiebo Luo

Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Circuit Models (LCMs) have sparked excitement across the electronic design automation (EDA) community, promising a revolution in circuit design and optimization. Yet, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Qiang Xu , Leon Stok , Rolf Drechsler , Xi Wang , Grace Li Zhang , Igor L. Markov

This is a report on the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog. The workshop explored the current state of the art along with its limitations and suggested promising directions for future work in this important and…

The application of Machine Learning (ML) in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) design has garnered significant research attention. Despite the requirement for extensive datasets to build effective ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jingyu Pan , Chen-Chia Chang , Zhiyao Xie , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

The chip design process involves numerous steps, beginning with defining product requirements and progressing through architectural planning, system-level design, and the physical layout of individual circuit blocks. As the enablers of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Xinyue Wu , Zixuan Li , Fan Hu , Ting Lin , Xiaotian Zhao , Runxi Wang , Xinfei Guo

Recent advances in machine learning, particularly the emergence of foundation models, are leading to new opportunities to develop technology-based solutions to societal problems. However, the reasoning and inner workings of today's complex…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Rajeev Alur , Greg Durrett , Hadas Kress-Gazit , Corina Păsăreanu , René Vidal

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

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

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have paved the way for Large Code Models (LCMs), enabling automation in complex software engineering tasks, such as code generation, software testing, and program comprehension, among…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Alejandro Velasco , Aya Garryyeva , David N. Palacio , Antonio Mastropaolo , Denys Poshyvanyk

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven electronic design automation (EDA) techniques have been extensively explored for VLSI circuit design applications. Most recently, foundation AI models for circuits have emerged as a new technology trend.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Wenji Fang , Jing Wang , Yao Lu , Shang Liu , Yuchao Wu , Yuzhe Ma , Zhiyao Xie

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into electronic design automation (EDA) has significantly advanced the field, offering transformative benefits, particularly in register transfer level (RTL) code generation and understanding.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yi Liu , Hongji Zhang , Yunhao Zhou , Zhengyuan Shi , Changran Xu , Qiang Xu

Modern chip physical design relies heavily on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, which often struggle to provide interpretable feedback or actionable guidance for improving routing congestion. In this work, we introduce a Multimodal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yun-Da Tsai , Chang-Yu Chao , Liang-Yeh Shen , Tsung-Han Lin , Haoyu Yang , Mark Ho , Yi-Chen Lu , Wen-Hao Liu , Shou-De Lin , Haoxing Ren

Large language models (LLMs) serve as powerful tools for design, providing capabilities for both task automation and design assistance. Recent advancements have shown tremendous potential for facilitating LLM integration into the chip…

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has significantly transformed the field of artificial intelligence, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in natural language processing and moving towards multi-modal functionality.…

Training new engineers in digital design is a challenge, particularly when it comes to teaching the complex electronic design automation (EDA) tooling used in this domain. Learners will typically deploy designs in the Verilog and VHDL…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Siyu Qiu , Benjamin Tan , Hammond Pearce

The emergence of Large Code Models (LCMs) has transformed software engineering (SE) automation, driving significant advancements in tasks such as code generation, source code documentation, code review, and bug fixing. However, these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Antonio Mastropaolo , Denys Poshyvanyk

With the rapid advancement of semiconductor technology, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) has become an increasingly knowledge-intensive and document-driven engineering domain. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Lei Li , Xingwen Yu , Jianguo Ni , Junxuan Zhu , Jieqiong Zhang , Jian Zhao , Zhi Liu

Science meets Engineering in Deep Learning took place in Vancouver as part of the Workshop section of NeurIPS 2019. As organizers of the workshop, we created the following report in an attempt to isolate emerging topics and recurring themes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Levent Sagun , Caglar Gulcehre , Adriana Romero , Negar Rostamzadeh , Stefano Sarao Mannelli