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:2607. 22761v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Resolving Design Rule Violations (DRVs) in layouts entails an iterative loop of geometric edits and verification.
By Anushka Mukherjee, Kang He, Kaushik Roy
arXiv:2607. 17528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-driven agent systems have emerged as a promising paradigm for electronic design automation (EDA), demonstrating strong potential for automating complex design workflows.
By Jinyuan Deng, Zhengrui Chen, Xufeng Wei, Tianyu Xing, Chenyi Wen, Cheng Zhuo
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:2607. 20019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Design rule check (DRC) closure remains a major bottleneck in advanced-node physical design.
By Bing-Yue Wu, Chia-Tung Ho, Haoyu Yang, Brucek Khailany, Vidya A. Chhabria
AI for Research (AI4Research) leverages AI to automate and improve scientific workflows. While experimental design is a critical stage of the research process, prior work has focused primarily on code implementation and execution, overlooking the importance of this stage, and no benchmark exists to evaluate AI's ability to conduct systematic experiment design.