Chip-chat: Challenges and opportunities in conversational hardware design

J Blocklove, S Garg, R Karri… - 2023 ACM/IEEE 5th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern hardware design starts with specifications provided in natural language. These are
then translated by hardware engineers into appropriate Hardware Description Languages …

Artificial intelligence for safety-critical systems in industrial and transportation domains: A survey

J Perez-Cerrolaza, J Abella, M Borg, C Donzella… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enable the development of next-generation autonomous safety-
critical systems in which Machine Learning (ML) algorithms learn optimized and safe …

Rtllm: An open-source benchmark for design rtl generation with large language model

Y Lu, S Liu, Q Zhang, Z **e - 2024 29th Asia and South Pacific …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by the recent success of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, researchers
start to explore the adoption of LLMs for agile hardware design, such as generating design …

A survey of reasoning with foundation models

J Sun, C Zheng, E **e, Z Liu, R Chu, J Qiu, J Xu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Reasoning, a crucial ability for complex problem-solving, plays a pivotal role in various real-
world settings such as negotiation, medical diagnosis, and criminal investigation. It serves …

[KNJIGA][B] VLSI physical design: from graph partitioning to timing closure

AB Kahng, J Lienig, IL Markov, J Hu - 2011 - Springer
The electronic design automation (EDA) industry develops software to support engineers in
the creation of new integrated circuit (IC) designs. Due to the high complexity of modern …

A hierarchical adaptive multi-task reinforcement learning framework for multiplier circuit design

Z Wang, J Wang, D Zuo, J Yunjie, X **a… - … on Machine Learning, 2024 - openreview.net
Multiplier design---which aims to explore a large combinatorial design space to
simultaneously optimize multiple conflicting objectives---is a fundamental problem in the …

A survey of graph neural networks for electronic design automation

DS Lopera, L Servadei, GN Kiprit… - 2021 ACM/IEEE 3rd …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by Moore's law, the chip design complexity is steadily increasing. Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) has been able to cope with the challenging very large-scale integration …

Robust GNN-based representation learning for HLS

A Sohrabizadeh, Y Bai, Y Sun… - 2023 IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The efficient and timely optimization of microarchitecture for a target application is hindered
by the long evaluation runtime of a design candidate, creating a serious burden. To tackle …

Circuitnet: An open-source dataset for machine learning in vlsi cad applications with improved domain-specific evaluation metric and learning strategies

Z Chai, Y Zhao, W Liu, Y Lin, R Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design automation community has been actively exploring machine learning (ML) for
very-large-scale-integrated (VLSI) computer-aided design (CAD). Many studies have …

Offline model-based optimization via policy-guided gradient search

Y Chemingui, A Deshwal, TN Hoang… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Offline optimization is an emerging problem in many experimental engineering domains
including protein, drug or aircraft design, where online experimentation to collect evaluation …