4 papers
From Prompts to Silicon: Scaling LLM-Assisted Chip Design with the AI Hardware Design League
Parsa Mirfasihi, Harish Kumar Dharavath, Muhtasim Alam Chowdhury +5
The semiconductor workforce shortage has renewed interest in making chip design accessible to students without conventional very-large-scale integration (VLSI) training. We present…
Power, Performance, and Area of HPC-Based Malware Detectors: An FPGA and Open-PDK ASIC Study
Alireza Abolhasani Zeraatkar, Parnian Shabani Kamran, Parsa Mirfasihi +2
Hardware malware detectors (HMDs) classify programs as benign or malicious based on hardware performance counter (HPC) data. Previous studies have shown that ensemble classifiers o…
Can Agents Secure Hardware? Evaluating Agentic LLM-Driven Obfuscation for IP Protection
Sujan Ghimire, Parsa Mirfasihi, Muhtasim Alam Chowdhury +6
The globalization of integrated circuit (IC) design and manufacturing has increased the exposure of hardware intellectual property (IP) to untrusted stages of the supply chain, rai…
Large Language Models and Attention-Based AI for Hardware Design and Security: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
Sujan Ghimire, Parsa Mirfasihi, Muhtasim Alam Chowdhury +9
Recent advances in attention-based artificial intelligence (AI) models have unlocked vast potential to automate digital hardware design while enhancing and strengthening security m…