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Towards Reliable AI-Assisted Analog Design: Template-Constrained LLM Agents for SAR ADC Generation

arXiv:2607. 14165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capability in software code generation, their application to analog Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is bottlenecked.

arXiv AI

5d ago

AaLLM: An End-to-End Analog Circuit Design Framework from Topology Generation to Sizing Using Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 13472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Analog circuit design is a time-consuming, iterative process in a nonlinear and high-dimensional design space that relies heavily on expert intuition.

By Mohammed Ayman Habib, Rylan Hart, Morteza Fayazi

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arXiv AI

2d ago

Simulation-Aware In-Context Policy Improvement for LLM-Aided Analog Layout Refinement

arXiv:2608. 13767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Analog IC layout design remains a labor-intensive iterative process dominated by simulation-driven refinement.

By Bingyang Liu, Ziming Wei, Xiaohan Gao, David Z. Pan

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 5

CASS-RTL: Correctness-Aware Subspace Steering for RTL Generation with LLMs

arXiv:2606. 05680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the automatic synthesis (generation) of register-transfer level (RTL) code from natural language instructions, offering a promising pathway to accelerate chip design.

By Mohammad Akyash, Nowfel Mashnoor, Kimia Azar, Hadi Kamali

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 16

EXPLORE: Exploration with Guided Search for Analog Topology Generation using Language Models

arXiv:2607. 13416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating analog circuit topology design is essential to reduce the extensive manual effort required to meet increasingly diverse and customized application demands.

By Guanglei Zhou, Chen-Chia Chang, Yikang Shen, Jonathan Ku, Isaac Jacobson, Jingyu Pan, Yiran Chen, Xin Zhang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 13

LLM for EDA in Front-End Design: Challenges and Opportunities

arXiv:2607. 09616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As chip complexity increases and time-to-market pressures grow, front-end design has become a critical bottleneck in chip development.

By Kangwei Xu, Bing Li, Ulf Schlichtmann

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arXiv AI

Jun 19

Interpretable and Verifiable Hardware Generation with LLM-Driven Stepwise Refinement

arXiv:2606. 19387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in software development.

By You Li, Samuel Mandell, David Z. Pan

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arXiv AI

Jun 4

StepPRM-RTL: Stepwise Process-Reward Guided LLM Fine-Tuning for Enhanced RTL Synthesis

arXiv:2606. 04246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic generation of RTL code for digital hardware designs remains challenging due to long-horizon reasoning, multi-step dependencies, and strict correctness constraints in Verilog and VHDL.

By Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Apoorva Nitsure, Luyao Shi, Ehsan Degan, Vandana Mukherjee

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 28

Can an Actor-Critic Optimization Framework Improve Analog Design?

arXiv:2603. 24714v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Analog design often slows down because even small changes to device sizes or biases require expensive simulation cycles, and high-quality solutions typically occupy only a narrow part of a very large search space.

By Sounak Dutta, Fin Amin, Sushil Panda, Jonathan Rabe, Yuejiang Wen, Paul Franzon

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

SABLE: An NDA-Safe Closed-Loop LLM Framework for Analog Circuit Optimization in Industrial EDA Flows

arXiv:2607. 03701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can propose circuit-optimization decisions, but industrial analog flows cannot expose foundry PDK content, proprietary schematics, absolute simulation paths, or license-bound tool state to a cloud endpoint.

By Xunqi Li, Chris H. Kim

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arXiv AI

Aug 6

ORACLE: A Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning-Based Analog Circuit Design Optimizer with Large Language Models-Guided Exploration

arXiv:2608. 04999v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Analog circuit design automation using reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for reducing manual effort.

By Osei Brempong, Mohammed Ayman Habib, Vivan Poddar, Morteza Fayazi

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arXiv AI

5d ago

SynAct: A Reasoning-Acting Large Language Model Agent for Adaptive Synthesis Optimization

arXiv:2608. 12751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Logic synthesis transforms RTL designs into gate-level netlists, where PPA results are highly sensitive to the choice of optimization commands, making synthesis tuning both high-dimensional and expensive.

By Fangzhou Liu, Peiyi Han, Jiawei Liu, Yuan Pu, Zhuolun He, Rongliang Fu, Tsung-Yi Ho, Bei Yu

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 3

A Survey of Circuit Foundation Model: Foundation AI Models for VLSI Circuit Design and EDA

arXiv:2504. 03711v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven electronic design automation (EDA) techniques have been extensively explored for VLSI circuit design applications.

By Wenji Fang, Jing Wang, Yao Lu, Shang Liu, Yuchao Wu, Yuzhe Ma, Zhiyao Xie

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