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most citedC2HLSC: Leveraging Large Language Models to Bridge the Software-to-Hardware Design Gap

14 citations · 31 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.AR2026

VeriInteresting: An Empirical Study of Model Prompt Interactions in Verilog Code Generation

Luca Collini, Andrew Hennesee, Patrick Yubeaton +2

Rapid advances in language models (LMs) have created new opportunities for automated code generation while complicating trade-offs between model characteristics and prompt design c…

cs.CR2025★ 3 cited

ARIANNA: An Automatic Design Flow for Fabric Customization and eFPGA Redaction

Luca Collini, Jitendra Bhandari, Chiara Muscari Tomajoli +6

In the modern global Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain, protecting intellectual property (IP) is a complex challenge, and balancing IP loss risk and added cost for theft counter…

cs.PL2025

VeriThoughts: Enabling Automated Verilog Code Generation using Reasoning and Formal Verification

Patrick Yubeaton, Andre Nakkab, Weihua Xiao +4

This paper introduces VeriThoughts, a novel dataset designed for reasoning-based Verilog code generation. We establish a new benchmark framework grounded in formal verification met…

cs.CR2025

MARVEL: Multi-Agent RTL Vulnerability Extraction using Large Language Models

Luca Collini, Baleegh Ahmad, Joey Ah-kiow +1

Hardware security verification is a challenging and time-consuming task. Design engineers may use formal verification, linting, and functional simulation tests, coupled with analys…

cs.AI2025

Can Reasoning Models Reason about Hardware? An Agentic HLS Perspective

Luca Collini, Andrew Hennessee, Ramesh Karri +1

Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI o3-mini and DeepSeek-R1 use enhanced reasoning through Chain-of-Thought (CoT). Their potential in hardware design, which relies o…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

The Impact of Logic Locking on Confidentiality: An Automated Evaluation

Lennart M. Reimann, Evgenii Rezunov, Dominik Germek +4

Logic locking secures hardware designs in untrusted foundries by incorporating key-driven gates to obscure the original blueprint. While this method safeguards the integrated circu…

cs.AR2024★ 14 cited

C2HLSC: Leveraging Large Language Models to Bridge the Software-to-Hardware Design Gap

Luca Collini, Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools offer rapid hardware design from C code, but their compatibility is limited by code constructs. This paper investigates Large Language Models (LLMs…

cs.AR2024★ 13 cited

C2HLSC: Can LLMs Bridge the Software-to-Hardware Design Gap?

Luca Collini, Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri

High Level Synthesis (HLS) tools offer rapid hardware design from C code, but their compatibility is limited by code constructs. This paper investigates Large Language Models (LLMs…