13 papers
Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution
Cunxi Yu, Chenhui Deng, Nathaniel Pinckney +1
We present HORIZON, a self-evolving agent framework that treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution. A Markdown harness is compiled into a project pack containing do…
AUTOGATE: Automated Clock Gating via Toggling-Aware LLM-based RTL Rewriting
Yiting Wang, Chenhui Deng, Chia-Tung Ho +6
Fine-grain clock gating (FGCG) is among the most effective techniques for reducing dynamic power, yet current FGCG optimization flows remain largely manual. Recent LLM-based RTL op…
Nemotron 3 Ultra: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning
NVIDIA, :, Aaron Blakeman +571
We introduce Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550 billion total and 55 billion active parameter Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Attention language model. We pre-trained Nemotron 3 Ultra on 20 t…
How LLMs Fail and Generalize in RTL Coding for Hardware Design?
Guan-Ting Liu, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Chenhui Deng +3
Translating sequential programming priors into the parallel temporal logic of hardware design remains a crucial bottleneck for large language models(LLM). To investigate this, we i…
ACE-RTL: When Agentic Context Evolution Meets RTL-Specialized LLMs
Chenhui Deng, Zhongzhi Yu, Guan-Ting Liu +3
Recent advances in LLMs have sparked growing interest in applying them to hardware design automation, particularly for accurate RTL code generation. Prior efforts follow two largel…
HeuriGym: An Agentic Benchmark for LLM-Crafted Heuristics in Combinatorial Optimization
Hongzheng Chen, Yingheng Wang, Yaohui Cai +10
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant advancements in reasoning and agent-based problem-solving, current evaluation methodologies fail to adequately asse…