2 papers
cs.AR2026
Spec-Driven Hardware Evolution via Executable Contract Refinement and Proof-Guided RTL Update
Shibo Zhao, Yang Zhang, Mengxia Tao +6
Hardware development is inherently evolutionary: major revisions typically begin by changing intended behavior and then updating a previously validated implementation, rather than…
cs.AR2026
EquivFusion: Unifying Hardware Equivalence Checking from Algorithms to Netlists via MLIR
Jiaying Zhu, Baoqi Zhang, Mengxia Tao +4
Ensuring functional consistency between high-level algorithmic models and low-level hardware implementations is a critical challenge, particularly as modern design flows increasing…