Mihaela Jivanescu

ARES: Adaptive Reasoning-Effort Steering for PPA- and Cost-Aware RTL Optimization with LLM Agents

Stef Cuyckens, Mihaela Jivanescu, Jun Yin, Chao Fang, Marian Verhelst

Large language model (LLM) agents optimize the power, performance, and area (PPA) of register-transfer-level (RTL) designs by iterating over edits, synthesis, and PPA analysis, paying a dollar cost for every LLM call. Prior agents report the quality reached without its normalized…Read more