arXiv AI

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
Aug 20

Large Language Model for Verilog Code Generation: Literature Review and the Road Ahead

The article reviews the growing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating Verilog code, a key hardware description language in electronic design automation. It surveys 102 papers, covering conferences, journals, and preprints, and addresses four research questions about LLM selection, datasets, techniques, and alignment strategies. The review identifies current limitations and proposes a roadmap for future research in LLM-assisted hardware design.

By Guang Yang, Wei Zheng, Xiang Chen, Dong Liang, Peng Hu, Yukui Yang, Shaohang Peng, Zhenghan Li, Jiahui Feng, Xiao Wei, Kexin Sun, Deyuan Ma, Haotian Cheng, Yiheng Shen, Xing Hu, Terry Yue Zhuo, David Lo
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
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