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most citedThe Dawn of AI-Native EDA: Opportunities and Challenges of Large Circuit Models

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cs.AR2026

LevelSyn: Physical-Aware Logic Synthesis via Level-Asynchronous Graph Neural Networks

Jingyi Zhou, Zhengyuan Shi, Ziyang Zheng +1

As integrated circuit technology scales into the nanometer regime, the traditional disconnect between logic synthesis and physical design has led to significant PPA (Power, Perform…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Flat Netlist: Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning for Scalable Analysis of Sequential Circuits

Jingyi Zhou, Zhengyuan Shi, Jiaying Zhu +2

Circuit Representation Learning (CRL) offers a powerful paradigm to guide and optimize core Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tasks, but its practical adoption is hindered by the…

cs.AR2026

HINT: Toward an Executable Hardware-Intent Representation Layer for LLM-Driven RTL Generation

Tairan Cheng, Yi Liu, Dongsheng Zuo +6

Generating implementation-quality RTL with large language models (LLMs) remains difficult because direct generation must resolve microarchitecture while simultaneously producing an…

cs.AR2026

Miter-Aware LUT Mapping: Aligning Structure and Solvability for Efficient Logic Equivalence Checking

Jiaying Zhu, Zhengyuan Shi, Mengxia Tao +3

Logic Equivalence Checking (LEC), a fundamental hardware verification task, is often bottlenecked by synthesis-induced structural perturbations and XOR-dense regions that degrade S…

cs.LO2026

Rethinking Clause Management for CDCL SAT Solvers

Yalun Cai, Xindi Zhang, Zhengyuan Shi +2

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solving underpins a wide range of applications in Electronic Design Automation (EDA), particularly formal verification. However, this paper observes th…

cs.AR2026

CktEvo: Repository-Level RTL Code Benchmark for Design Evolution

Zhengyuan Shi, Jingxin Wang, Tairan Cheng +3

Register-Transfer Level (RTL) coding is an iterative, repository-scale process in which Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) emerge from interactions across many files and the downst…