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Large language models (LLMs) are a new and powerful tool for a wide span of applications involving natural language and demonstrate impressive code generation abilities. The goal of this work is to automatically generate tests and use these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Christian Munley , Aaron Jarmusch , Sunita Chandrasekaran

Large language models (LLMs) have been enormously successful in solving a wide variety of structured and unstructured generative tasks, but they struggle to generate procedural geometry in Computer Aided Design (CAD). These difficulties…

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This paper presents MCP4EDA, the first Model Context Protocol server that enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to control and optimize the complete open-source RTL-to-GDSII design flow through natural language interaction. The system…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yiting Wang , Wanghao Ye , Yexiao He , Yiran Chen , Gang Qu , Ang Li

FPGAs are increasingly adopted in datacenter environments for their reconfigurability and energy efficiency. High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools have eased FPGA programming by raising the abstraction level from RTL to untimed C/C++, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Neha Prakriya , Zijian Ding , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

As generative artificial intelligence advances, Large Language Models (LLMs) are being explored for automated graphical user interface (GUI) design. This study investigates the usability and adaptability of LLM-generated interfaces by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Bartosz Sawicki , Tomasz Les , Dariusz Parzych , Aleksandra Wycisk-Ficek , Pawel Trebacz , Pawel Zawadzki

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionised natural language processing tasks, particularly as chat agents. However, their applicability to threat detection problems remains unclear. This paper examines the feasibility of employing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Paul R. B. Houssel , Priyanka Singh , Siamak Layeghy , Marius Portmann

The introduction of large language models and other influential developments in AI-based language processing have led to an evolution in the methods available to quantitatively analyse language data. With the resultant growth of attention…

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

Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) have emerged as a key paradigm of Physical AI and are increasingly deployed in autonomous vehicles, robots, and smart spaces. In these resource-constrained on-device settings, selecting an appropriate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Luoyang Sun , Jiwen Jiang , Yifeng Ding , Fengfa Li , Yan Song , Haifeng Zhang , Jian Ying , Lei Ren , Kun Zhan , Wei Chen , Yan Xie , Cheng Deng

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is emerging as a mainstream design methodology, allowing software designers to enjoy the benefits of a hardware implementation. Significant work has led to effective compilers that produce high-quality hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Jeffrey Goeders , Steven J. E. Wilton

The algorithm-to-hardware High-level synthesis (HLS) tools today are purported to produce hardware comparable in quality to handcrafted designs, particularly with user directive driven or domains specific HLS. However, HLS tools are not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Vinay B. Y. Kumar , Pinalkumar Engineer , Mandar Datar , Yatish Turakhia , Saurabh Agarwal , Sanket Diwale , Sachin B. Patkar

As the latest advancements in natural language processing, large language models (LLMs) have achieved human-level language understanding and generation abilities in many real-world tasks, and even have been regarded as a potential path to…

Modern Integrated Circuits (ICs) are becoming increasingly complex, and so is their development process. Hardware design verification entails a methodical and disciplined approach to the planning, development, execution, and sign-off of…

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced natural language processing, driving significant breakthroughs in tasks such as text generation, machine translation, and domain-specific reasoning. The field now faces a critical dilemma…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jiya Manchanda , Laura Boettcher , Matheus Westphalen , Jasser Jasser

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a powerful tool for developing efficient hardware accelerators that rely on specialized memory systems to achieve sufficient on-chip data reuse and off-chip bandwidth utilization. However, even with HLS,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Izumi Tanaka , Ken Sakayori , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki , Naoki Kobayashi

Recent advancements in visual speech recognition (VSR) have promoted progress in lip-to-speech synthesis, where pre-trained VSR models enhance the intelligibility of synthesized speech by providing valuable semantic information. The success…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yifan Liang , Fangkun Liu , Andong Li , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

A rigorous formalization of desired system requirements is indispensable when performing any verification task. This often limits the application of verification techniques, as writing formal specifications is an error-prone and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Matthias Cosler , Christopher Hahn , Daniel Mendoza , Frederik Schmitt , Caroline Trippel

Designing robotic hand morphologies for diverse manipulation tasks requires balancing dexterity, manufacturability, and task-specific functionality. While open-source frameworks and parametric tools support reproducible design, they still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yanyuan Qiao , Kieran Gilday , Yutong Xie , Josie Hughes

Serving Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for AI-powered applications, yet it demands substantial computational resources, particularly in memory bandwidth and computational throughput. Low-precision computation has emerged as a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yaoyao Ding , Bohan Hou , Xiao Zhang , Allan Lin , Tianqi Chen , Cody Yu Hao , Yida Wang , Gennady Pekhimenko

Designing controllers for complex industrial electronic systems is challenging due to nonlinearities and parameter uncertainties, and traditional methods are often slow and costly. To address this, we propose a novel autonomous design…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Chenggang Cui , Jiaming Liu , Peifeng Hui , Pengfeng Lin , Chuanlin Zhang