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
arXiv:2606. 15500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have facilitated impressive progress in software engineering, code generation, tooling, and systems.
By Jing Jin, Robert Chu, Ning Yan, Masood S. Mortazavi
arXiv:2607. 22759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show promise in code generation, but their capabilities to produce correct, synthesizable hardware description language (HDL) code still remain to be properly benchmarked.
By Angshuman Chakravertty, Rahul Koshti, Buddhi Prakash Sharma, Vinay Chamola
arXiv:2606. 08976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based RTL generation and reasoning is a promising direction for hardware design automation.
By Jing Wang, Shang Liu, Wenji Fang, Yuchao Wu, Yugao Zhu, Zhiyao Xie
arXiv:2608. 01804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training large language models (LLMs) via reinforcement learning (RL) has significantly advanced code generation capabilities.
By Tankun Li, Zhi Chen, Yaohua Tang
arXiv:2607. 16632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hardware engineering exposes coding agents to a form of long-horizon work that is difficult to capture with pass-at-k: progress is continuous, tool feedback is delayed and heterogeneous, and a backend failure may require revising RTL rather than tuning another physical-design parameter.
By Peilong Zhou, Zhirong Chen, Cangyuan Li, Haoyu Gao, Kaiyan Chang, Ziming Qu, Ying Wang
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
arXiv:2606. 05253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown increasing promise in generating functionally correct register-transfer-level (RTL) hardware designs.
By Peilong Zhou, Zhirong Chen, Cangyuan Li, Haoyu Gao, Kaiyan Chang, Ziming Qu, Ying Wang
arXiv:2608. 06791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Application-specific FPGA accelerators offer substantial performance and energy-efficiency gains across many application domains, but developing them is costly, often requiring months of specialized effort.
By Yuebo Luo, Ahmad Sedigh Baroughi, Philip Stachura, Le Chen, Venkatram Vishwanath, Zhenman Fang, Caiwen Ding
arXiv:2608. 05714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-CAD generation translates natural-language design intent into editable and executable parametric computer-aided design (CAD) codes, reducing the expertise and effort required for manual modeling.
By Shuhao Yan, Changhao He, Xi Peng, Peng Hu
Application-specific FPGA accelerators offer substantial performance and energy-efficiency gains across many application domains, but developing them is costly, often requiring months of specialized effort. Even with high-level synthesis (HLS), designers still need extensive hardware expertise to build high-performance accelerators.
arXiv:2601. 03808v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable performance in code synthesis; however, data-aware augmentation remains a limiting factor, handled via heuristic design or brute-force approaches.
By Usha Shrestha, Dmitry Ignatov, Radu Timofte