arXiv Machine Learning By Peilong Zhou, Zhirong Chen, Cangyuan Li, Haoyu Gao, Kaiyan Chang, Ziming Qu, Ying Wang

Alpha-RTL: Test-Time Training for RTL Hardware Optimization

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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.

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