16 papers
ARMOR: Accelerating RTL Simulation by Mitigating the Front-End Bottleneck Using Node Compression
Jiaping Tang, Jianan Mu, Zhiteng Chao +3
RTL simulation is indispensable in chip design. High-performance simulators typically lower each node in the RTL graph into an instruction sequence. Although this per-node lowering…
An Efficient Fault-Tolerance Scheme for CKKS Computation on CPUs
Jianan Mu, Ge Yu, Tenghui Hua +6
Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables computation on encrypted data, but its long ciphertext dataflow and high-dimensional modular arithmetic make it vulnerable to silent data…
FT-Pilot: Automated Fault-Tolerant RTL Rewriting via Vulnerability-Guided LLMs
Weixing Liu, Zizhen Liu, Jing Ye +4
As integrated circuit technologies continue to scale toward advanced process nodes, the continual reduction in node capacitance and supply voltage has made digital systems increasi…
Pecker: Bug Localization Framework for Sequential Designs via Causal Chain Reconstruction
Jiaping Tang, Jianan Mu, Tianyun Ma +3
Debugging represents a time-consuming and labor-intensive task in hardware design, with bug localization constituting a substantial portion of this process. While spectrum-based bu…
CoverAssert: Iterative LLM Assertion Generation Driven by Functional Coverage via Syntax-Semantic Representations
Yonghao Wang, Yang Yin, Hongqin Lyu +8
LLMs can generate SystemVerilog assertions (SVAs) from natural language specs, but single-pass outputs often lack functional coverage due to limited IC design understanding. We pro…
RTLSeek: Boosting the LLM-Based RTL Generation with Multi-Stage Diversity-Oriented Reinforcement Learning
Xinyu Zhang, Zhiteng Chao, Yonghao Wang +6
Register Transfer Level (RTL) design translates high-level specifications into hardware using HDLs such as Verilog. Although LLM-based RTL generation is promising, the scarcity of…