Hardware Design and Security in the Era of Chiplets and LLMs
Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Paul V. Gratz, Ramesh Karri
cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.AR
Submitted: 2026-08-05
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Terminology
Sources
- Chiplet Cloud: Building AI Supercomputers for Serving Large Generative Language Models
- CHIME: Chiplet-based Heterogeneous Near-Memory Acceleration for Edge Multimodal LLM Inference
- LLMs for Secure Hardware Design and Related Problems: Opportunities and Challenges
- Make Every Move Count: LLM-based High-Quality RTL Code Generation Using MCTS
- VeriThoughts: Enabling Automated Verilog Code Generation using Reasoning and Formal Verification
- From Natural Language to Silicon: The Representation Bottleneck in LLM Hardware Design
- RTL++: Graph-enhanced LLM for RTL Code Generation
- Veritas: Deterministic Verilog Code Synthesis from LLM-Generated Conjunctive Normal Form
- Knowledge Graphs, the Missing Link in Agentic AI-based Formal Verification
- LLM-Aided Testbench Generation and Bug Detection for Finite-State Machines
- VeriDispatcher: Multi-Model Dispatching through Pre-Inference Difficulty Prediction for RTL Generation Optimization
- Synthesis-in-the-Loop Evaluation of LLMs for RTL Generation: Quality, Reliability, and Failure Modes
- Configuration Over Selection: Hyperparameter Sensitivity Exceeds Model Differences in Open-Source LLMs for RTL Generation
- Meltdown
- Can Transformer Memory Be Corrupted? Investigating Cache-Side Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models
- SafeTune: Mitigating Data Poisoning in LLM Fine-Tuning for RTL Code Generation
- Semantic Consensus Decoding: Backdoor Defense for Verilog Code Generation
- HarmChip: Evaluating Hardware Security Centric LLM Safety via Jailbreak Benchmarking
- Can Agents Secure Hardware? Evaluating Agentic LLM-Driven Obfuscation for IP Protection
- TrojanLoC: LLM-based Framework for RTL Trojan Localization
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