arXiv AI
Jun 29
Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution
arXiv:2606. 28279v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present HORIZON, a self-evolving agent framework that treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution.
HighTide: An Agent-Curated Open-Source VLSI Benchmark Suite
arXiv:2606. 04126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce HighTide, an evolving AI-assisted benchmark suite.
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arXiv AI
Jul 21
CLOSER-Bench: Evaluating Budgeted Cross-Stage Design Closure for Hardware Agents
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.
arXiv AI
Jun 10
EstRTL: Functional Estimation Guided RTL Code Generation
arXiv:2606. 09867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimizing register transfer level (RTL) code is of vital importance in hardware design.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
RTL-BenchLS: A Large-Scale Benchmark for RTL Reasoning and Generation with Large Language Models
arXiv:2606. 08976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based RTL generation and reasoning is a promising direction for hardware design automation.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31
KernelGenBench: A Multi-Source and Multi-Chip Benchmark for LLM-based Kernel Generation
arXiv:2607. 27231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have significantly increased the demand for efficient accelerator kernels, but kernel development remains a highly specialized and labor-intensive task.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5
CuTeGen: An LLM-Based Agentic Framework for Generation and Optimization of High-Performance GPU Kernels using CuTe
arXiv:2604. 01489v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-performance GPU kernels are critical to modern machine learning systems, yet developing them remains a manual, expert-driven process.
arXiv AI
Aug 10
HLSmith: An Expert-Guided Agentic Framework for C/C++-to-HLS Translation
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.
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Aug 7
HLSmith: An Expert-Guided Agentic Framework for C/C++-to-HLS Translation
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 AI
Aug 3
Agentic Harness for Real-World Compilers
arXiv:2603. 20075v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Compilers are critical to modern computing, yet fixing compiler bugs is difficult.
arXiv AI
Jun 12
Structured Testbench Generation for LLM-Driven HDL Design and Verification-Oriented Data Curation
arXiv:2606. 12983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated testbench generation has become a critical bottleneck in large language model (LLM)-driven Register Transfer Level (RTL) workflows, where large numbers of candidate designs must be verified rapidly and reliably.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28
Benchmarking LLMs for Verilog Design Flows
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.
arXiv AI
Jul 3
Understanding Agent-Based Patching of Compiler Missed Optimizations
arXiv:2607. 02370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Compiler missed optimizations refer to cases in which compilers failed to optimize certain code.