Faster Chip Design Tools

Recent advances in RTL-focused EDA assistants are being driven by fully open-source, non‑commercial methods that already show measurable improvements over earlier LLM baselines, signaling weak differentiation for proprietary offerings in this space arxiv.org.

Even with integrated error-detection and correction, reported end-to-end accuracy tops out at 91% on representative RTL tasks—insufficient for a safety- and correctness-critical workflow that still demands human-in-the-loop review and rigorous integration with established verification flows arxiv.org ewadirect.com.

Waveform-conditioned agents that propose targeted RTL edits based on simulation traces also risk misreading complex waveforms, producing plausible but incorrect changes that create hard-to-detect functional bugs without stringent verification ewadirect.com arxiv.org arxiv.org.