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Day 1: June 28th

8:15am-8:45am        Breakfast 

8:45am-9:10am        Opening remarks 

9:10am-10:10am      Keynote 1: Reasoning Myths about Language Models: What is Next? 
                                          Speaker: Dan Roth, VP/Distinguished Scientist, AWS AI Labs & Eduardo D. Glandt

                                          Distinguished Professor, UPenn. Abstract and Bio   [Recordings]  

                                          Session Chair: Deming Chen

10:10am-10:30am  Coffee Break

10:30am-Noon         Best Paper Nominees, 15 min talks (12 min + 3 for Q&A)

                                          Session Chair: Jose Renau, UCSC

• AMSNet: Netlist Dataset for AMS Circuits (Zhuofu Tao, Yichen Shi, Yiru Huo, Rui Ye, Zonghang Li, Li Huang, Chen Wu, Na Bai, Zhiping Yu, Ting-Jung Lin, Lei He)
• VerilogReader: LLM-Aided Hardware Test Generation (Ruiyang Ma, Yuxin Yang,  Ziqian Liu, Jiaxi Zhang, Min Li, Junhua Huang, Guojie Luo) 
• RTLCoder: Outperforming GPT-3.5 in Design RTL Generation with Our Open-Source Dataset and Lightweight Solution (Shang Liu, Wenji Fang, Yao Lu, Qijun Zhang, Hongce Zhang, Zhiyao Xie)
• EDA Corpus: A Large Language Model Dataset for Enhanced Interaction with OpenROAD (Bing-Yue Wu, Utsav Sharma, Sai Rahul Dhanvi Kankipati, Ajay Yadav, Bintu Kappil George, Sai Ritish Guntupalli, Austin Rovinski, Vidya Chhabria)
• MG-Verilog: Multi-grained Dataset Towards Enhanced LLM-assisted Verilog Generation (Yongan Zhang, Zhongzhi Yu, Yonggan Fu, Cheng Wan, Yingyan Celine Lin)
• Large Language Model (LLM) for Standard Cell Layout Design Optimization (Chia-Tung Ho, Haoxing Ren)

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Noon-1:00pm          Lunch

1:00pm-2:30pm     Invited Session 1 

                                        Session Chair: Vidya Chhabria, ASU 

• 1:00-1:30: Scaling Intelligence
  Speaker: Azalia Mirhoseini, Stanford University [Recording]
• 1:30-2:00: Deep Reinforcement in the Real World: From Chip Design to LLMs
  Speaker: Anna Goldie, Stanford/Google DeepMind
• 2:00-2:30: Recent Techniques to Improve LLM Performance on "Hard" Domains like Coding and Mathematics
  Speaker: Mo Tiwari, OpenAI [Recording]

2:30pm-3:30pm     Poster Session (For All talks on Day 1), WIPs, Coffee. 

                                        (WIP posters are welcome in any of the poster sessions)

3:30pm-5:00pm     LLMs for RTL, 13 min talks (10 min + 3 for Q&A) 

                                        Session Chair: Jeyavijayan Rajendran, TAMU

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• A Multi-Expert Large Language Model Architecture for Verilog Code Generation (Bardia Nadimi, Hao Zheng)
• VHDL-Eval: A Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models in VHDL Code Generation (Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Luyao Shi, Stefano Ambrogio, Charles Mackin, Apoorva Nitsure, David Beymer, Ehsan Degan)
• Toward Hardware Security Benchmarking of LLMs (Raheel Afsharmazayejani, Mohammad Moradi Shahmiri, Parker Link, Hammond Pearce, Benjamin Tan)
• VGV: Verilog Generation using Visual Capabilities of Multi-Modal Large Language Models (SamZaak Wong, Gwok-Waa Wan, Dongping Liu, Xi Wang)
• HDLEval Benchmarking LLMs for Multiple HDLs (Mark Zakharov, Farzaneh Rabiei Kashanaki, Jose Renau)
• RTL-Repo: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Large-Scale RTL Design Projects (Ahmed Allam, Mohamed Shalan)
• From Bugs to Fixes: HDL Bug Identification and Patching using LLMs and RAG (Khushboo Qayyum, Muhammad Hassan, Sallar Ahmadi-Pour, Chandan Kumar Jha, Rolf Drechsler)

5:00pm-6:00pm      Panel: Generative AI for semiconductor from architecture to fab: A pipedream? Or ready for prime time

• Akhilesh Kumar (Ansys), Ioannis Savidis (Drexel University), Mike Kazda (IBM), Srinivas Bodapati (Intel), Sid Dhodhi (Nvidia), Ivan Kissiov (Siemens EDA), Ilhami Torunoglu (Siemens EDA). Leigh Anne Clevenger (Si2), Moderator. 

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6:00pm-8:00pm      Banquet

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Day 2: June 29th 

8:15am-8:45am.       Breakfast

8:45am-9:00am        Best Paper Award Announcement

9:00am-10:00am      Keynote 2 : From Imitation to Discovery Test: A case study of AlphaGeometry
                                         Speaker: Thang Luong, Senior Staff Research Scientist, 

                                          Google DeepMind. Abstract and Bio

                                          Session Chair: Siddharth Garg

10:00am-10:30am  Coffee Break

10:30am-Noon          Novel Uses and LLMs in Design, 13 min talks (10 min + 3 for Q&A) 

                                          Session Chair: Austin Rovinski, NYU​

• CreativEval: Evaluating Creativity of LLM-Based Hardware Code Generation (Matthew DeLorenzo, Vasudev Gohil, Jeyavijayan Rajendran)
• Assessing Economic Viability: A Comparative Analysis of Total Cost of Ownership for Domain-Adapted Large Language Models versus Open-Source Counterparts in Chip Design Coding Assistance (Amit Sharma, Teodor-Dumitru Ene, Kishor Kunal, Mingjie Liu, Haoxing Ren)
• FabSage: A Large Multimodal Model for IC Defect Detection, Analysis, and Knowledge Querying (Yuqi Jiang, Qian Jin, Xudong Lu, Qi Sun, Cheng Zhuo)
• Qiskit Code Assistant: Training LLMs for generating Quantum Computing Code (Nicolas Dupuis, Luca Buratti, Sanjay Vishwakarma, Aitana Viudes Forrat, David Kremer, Ismael Faro, Ruchir Puri, Juan Cruz-Benito)
• Evaluating Large Language Models for G-Code Debugging, Manipulation, and Comprehension (Anushrut Jignasu, Kelly O. Marshall, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Aditya Balu, Chinmay Hegde, Adarsh Krishnamurthy)
• Can Low-Rank Knowledge Distillation in LLMs be Useful for Microelectronic Reasoning? (Fin Amin, Nirjhor Rouf, Paul Franzon)
• Evaluating LLMs for Hardware Design and Test (Jason Blocklove, Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri, Hammond Pearce)

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Noon-1:00pm          Lunch

1:00pm-2:00pm     Invited Session 2

                                        Session Chair: Hammond Pearce, UNSW

• 1:00-1:30: Self-Improvement with Large Language Models
  Speaker: Xinyun Chen, Google DeepMind  Abstract and Bio  [Recording]
• 1:30-2:00: The Story of MLCommons: Lessons Learned and Future Visions for ML-Aided Design
  Speaker: Vijay Janapa Reddi, Harvard University [Recording]

2:00pm-3:00pm     Poster Session (For All talks on Day 2), WIPs, Coffee.

                                        (WIP posters are welcome in any of the poster sessions)

3:00pm-4:45pm     From Software to Synthesis, 13 min talks (10 min + 3 for Q&A) 

                                        Session Chair: Benjamin Tan, University of Calgary

• Ask-EDA: A Design Assistant Empowered by LLM, Hybrid RAG and Abbreviation De-hallucination (Luyao Shi, Michael Kazda, Bradley Sears, Nick Shropshire, Ruchir Puri)
• C2HLSC: Can LLMs Bridge the Software-to-Hardware Design Gap? (Luca Collini, Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri)
• Novel Preprocessing Technique for Data Embedding in Engineering Code Generation Using Large Language Model (Yu-Chen Lin, Akhilesh Kumar, Norman Chang, Wenliang Zhang, Muhammad Zakir, Rucha Apte, Haiyang He, Chao Wang, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang)
• LLM-Aided Compilation for Tensor Accelerators (Charles Hong, Sahil Bhatia, Altan Haan, Shengjun Kris Dong, Dima Nikiforov, Alvin Cheung, Sophia Shao)
• LLM-aided explanations of EDA synthesis errors (Siyu Qiu, Benjamin Tan, Hammond Pearce)
• CircuitSynth: Leveraging Large Language Models for Circuit Topology Synthesis (Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Luyao Shi, Ehsan Degan, Xin Zhang)
• An Iteratively-refined Dataset for High-Level Synthesis Functional Verification through LLM-Aided Bug Injection (Lily Jiaxin Wan, Hanchen Ye, Jinghua Wang, Manvi Jha, Deming Chen)
• Optimizing High-Level Synthesis Designs with Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models (Haocheng Xu, Haotian Hu, Sitao Huang)

4:45pm-5:00pm     Concluding Remarks