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
The article reviews the growing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating Verilog code, a key hardware description language in electronic design automation. It surveys 102 papers, covering conferences, journals, and preprints, and addresses four research questions about LLM selection, datasets, techniques, and alignment strategies. The review identifies current limitations and proposes a roadmap for future research in LLM-assisted hardware design.
By Guang Yang, Wei Zheng, Xiang Chen, Dong Liang, Peng Hu, Yukui Yang, Shaohang Peng, Zhenghan Li, Jiahui Feng, Xiao Wei, Kexin Sun, Deyuan Ma, Haotian Cheng, Yiheng Shen, Xing Hu, Terry Yue Zhuo, David Lo
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: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.
By En-Ming Huang, Yu-Hung Kao, Ren-Hao Deng, Wei-Po Hsin, Yao-Ting Hsieh, Cheng Liang, Hsiang-Yu Tsou, Mu-Chi Chen, Yu-Kai Hung, Shao-Chun Ho, Po-Hsuang Huang, Shih-Hao Hung, H. T. Kung
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
QiMeng-ChipV-RTL is a multi‑agent framework that tackles the challenges of generating Register‑Transfer Level (RTL) code for industrial IP‑level hardware design. By partitioning long design documents into short, localized tasks and using hierarchical planning, localized code generation, interface‑consistent merging, and AST‑guided debugging, it scales to complex specifications. Experiments on the RealBench benchmark show ChipV-RTL achieves a 45.0% pass rate, outperforming state‑of‑the‑art LLMs and agents which reach only 21.6%.
By Hanqi Lyu, Di Huang, Yaoyu Zhu, Kangcheng Liu, Bohan Dou, Chongxiao Li, Pengwei Jin, Shuyao Cheng, Rui Zhang, Zidong Du, Qi Guo, Xing Hu, Yunji Chen