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cs.CR2026

Hardware Design and Security in the Era of Chiplets and LLMs

Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Paul V. Gratz +1

The semiconductor industry is undergoing a dual revolution: the shift toward heterogeneous 2.5D chiplet systems and the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Electronic…

cs.CL2026

FinHardBench: Can LLMs Generate Latency-Aware Hardware for Financial Computing?

Weimin Fu, Hejia Zhang, Minghao Shao +6

Can large language models generate not just correct, but fast hardware? This paper investigates the question in financial FPGA design, where 5-10 nanoseconds of latency determines…

cs.LG2026

CoEvoP&R: Co-Evolving Placement Objectives with Routing Feedback via Large Language Models

Ruogu Chen, Weihua Xiao, Ramesh Karri +1

Analytical placers rely on differentiable objective functions to guide placement, typically combining intermediate surrogate metrics such as half-perimeter wirelength (HPWL) and ce…

cs.CR2026

LLMs for Secure Hardware Design and Related Problems: Opportunities and Challenges

Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Ramesh Karri

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and hardware security is rapidly reshaping the semiconductor industry. While LLMs offer unpr…

cs.AR2026

Configuration Over Selection: Hyperparameter Sensitivity Exceeds Model Differences in Open-Source LLMs for RTL Generation

Minghao Shao, Zeng Wang, Weimin Fu +5

Benchmarking of open-source LLMs for hardware design focuses on which LLMs to use, while treating inference-time decoding configuration as a secondary concern. This work shows that…

cs.AR2026

From Natural Language to Silicon: The Representation Bottleneck in LLM Hardware Design

Weimin Fu, Zeng Wang, Minghao Shao +5

Edge applications increasingly demand custom hardware, yet Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design requires expertise that domain engineers lack. Large Language Models (LLMs) p…

cs.CR2026★ 1 cited

HarmChip: Evaluating Hardware Security Centric LLM Safety via Jailbreak Benchmarking

Zeng Wang, Minghao Shao, Weimin Fu +6

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into electronic design automation (EDA) workflows has introduced powerful capabilities for RTL generation, verification, and design…

cs.AR2026

VeriCWEty: Embedding enabled Line-Level CWE Detection in Verilog

Prithwish Basu Roy, Zeng Wang, Anatolii Chuvashlov +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant improvement in RTL code generation. Despite the advances, the generated code is often riddled with common vulnerabilities and we…

cs.CR2026

LLM4PQC - Accurate and Efficient Synthesis of PQC Cores by Feedback-Driven LLMs

Buddhi Perera, Zeng Wang, Weihua Xiao +4

The design of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) hardware is a complex and hierarchical process with many challenges. A primary bottleneck is the conversion of PQC reference codes fro…

cs.AR2026

Synthesis-in-the-Loop Evaluation of LLMs for RTL Generation: Quality, Reliability, and Failure Modes

Weimin Fu, Zeng Wang, Minghao Shao +5

RTL generation is more than code synthesis. Designs must be syntactically valid, synthesizable, correct, hardware-efficient. SOTA evaluations stop at functional correctness and do…

cs.CR2026

TrojanGYM: A Detector-in-the-Loop LLM for Adaptive RTL Hardware Trojan Insertion

Saideep Sreekumar, Zeng Wang, Akashdeep Saha +6

Hardware Trojans (HTs) remain a critical threat because learning-based detectors often overfit to narrow trigger/payload patterns and small, stylized benchmarks. We introduce Troja…