7 papers
VPR-Evolve: Multi-Agent-Driven Algorithm Evolution for FPGA Place and Route
Qihang Wu, Taizun Jafri, Aman Arora +1
CAD tools typically apply the same fixed, hand-designed algorithms across circuits with widely different structural and timing characteristics. A common way to specialize these one…
Understanding Inference-Time Token Allocation and Coverage Limits in Agentic Hardware Verification
Vihaan Patel, Vidya Chhabria, Aman Arora
Coverage closure is the most time-consuming phase of hardware verification, and recent large language model (LLM)-based coding agents offer a promising approach to automated stimul…
Spec2Cov: An Agentic Framework for Code Coverage Closure of Digital Hardware Designs
Sean Lowe, Elias Hilaneh, Alma Babbit +3
Hardware verification is one of the most challenging stages of the hardware design process, requiring significant time and resources to ensure a design is fully validated and produ…
Evaluating Computing Platforms for Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of FPGAs against ASICs, GPUs, and CPUs
Chetan Choppali Sudarshan, Aman Arora, Vidya A Chhabria
Climate change concerns emphasize the need for sustainable computing. Modeling the carbon footprint (CFP), including operational and embodied CFP from semiconductor use, manufactur…
CHICO-Agent: An LLM Agent for the Cross-layer Optimization of 2.5D and 3D Chiplet-based Systems
Qihang Wu, Aman Arora, Vidya A. Chhabria
The rapid growth of large language models (LLMs) and AI workloads has pushed monolithic silicon to its reticle and economic limits, accelerating the adoption of 2.5D/3D chiplet sys…
CarbonPATH: Carbon-aware pathfinding and architecture optimization for chiplet-based AI systems
Chetan Choppali Sudarshan, Jiajun Hu, Aman Arora +1
The exponential growth of AI has created unprecedented demand for computational resources, pushing chip designs to the limit while simultaneously escalating the environmental footp…