arXiv:2607. 15830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate timing prediction at the register-transfer level (RTL) is a longstanding challenge in design automation.
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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.
arXiv:2608.28188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Circuit Representation Learning (CRL) offers a powerful paradigm to guide and optimize core Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tasks, but its practical...
arXiv:2606. 19347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Translating sequential programming priors into the parallel temporal logic of hardware design remains a crucial bottleneck for large language models(LLM).
The paper introduces STEP‑KD, a Sequential Timing Evaluation via Progressive Knowledge Distillation framework for predicting post‑routing timing from early‑stage design data. By training teacher models at post‑routing, post‑placement, and post‑floorplan stages and sequentially distilling their knowledge to a post‑synthesis student model through representation alignment, STEP‑KD bridges the abstraction gap that hampers existing machine learning approaches. Experiments on diverse circuits show that STEP‑KD reduces the weighted mean absolute percentage error of Total Negative Slack prediction to 19.78% versus 74.84% for the industry‑standard Static Timing Analysis tool.
arXiv:2606. 08976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based RTL generation and reasoning is a promising direction for hardware design automation.
arXiv:2606. 15500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have facilitated impressive progress in software engineering, code generation, tooling, and systems.