arXiv:2508.18730v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Estimating the quality of register transfer level (RTL) designs is crucial in the electronic design automation (EDA) workflow, as it enables instant feedback on key performance metrics like area and delay without the need for time-consuming logic synthesis. While recent approaches have leveraged large language models (LLMs) to derive embeddings from RTL code and achieved promising results, they overlook the structural semantics essential for accurate quality estimation. In contrast, the control data flow graph (CDFG) view exposes the design's
The paper addresses current limitations in AI-driven RTL quality estimation, specifically the LLMs' inability to fully grasp structural semantics, highlighting a critical gap the field is actively trying to close.
Improving RTL quality estimation is crucial for reducing development cycles and costs in chip design, impacting the efficiency and innovation capacity of the semiconductor industry.
The proposed graph learning approach integrates structural context, which could lead to more accurate and efficient early-stage chip design feedback, potentially accelerating hardware development.
- · EDA industry
- · Semiconductor manufacturers
- · AI researchers in graph learning
- · Hardware design engineers
- · Traditional RTL quality estimation methods
- · Less sophisticated LLM-based approaches
More efficient and faster iteration cycles in chip design due to improved RTL quality feedback.
Reduced time-to-market for new semiconductor products and potentially lower manufacturing costs.
Accelerated advancements in AI hardware itself, reinforcing the positive feedback loop between AI and compute supply chains.
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