Published On: August 16, 2025

4o AI As A Creative Partner In Chip Design Chip design has always been a demanding discipline, requiring engineers to balance performance, power, and area across endless iterations. Traditionally, much of this work has been manual and time-consuming. With the rise of large language models, engineers now have intelligent collaborators at their side. Recent research demonstrates how these models can take natural language specifications, such as “design a 4-bit adder,” and generate corresponding Verilog code that is both syntactically correct and functionally accurate. Projects like VerilogEval and RTLLM highlight how LLMs can handle structured hardware description, while experiments such as ChipGPT allow engineers to ask why a module fails verification and receive context-aware debugging suggestions. These capabilities are not about replacing human designers, but about extending their […]