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LaMDA: Language Model-Assisted Electronic Design Automation
LaMDA is a large language model (LLM)–driven framework designed to integrate directly with industrial electronic design automation (EDA) workflows. Unlike generic LLM applications and prior research focused on isolated open-source EDA tools, LaMDA embeds knowledge of commercial EDA environments such as Cadence Virtuoso, Keysight ADS, and AMD Vivado. This includes awareness of design rules, file formats, and tool-specific behaviours, enabling the generation of fully compliant design artefacts and accurate interpretation of complex simulation and synthesis logs.
By constraining LLMs with tool rules and incorporating feedback from design outputs—such as power, performance, and area reports—the framework supports LLM-assisted optimisation across analog, digital, and radio-frequency design flows. This reduces reliance on continuous human intervention while maintaining correctness. Case studies on operational transconductance amplifiers, microstrip patch antennas, and FPGA circuits demonstrate that LaMDA functions as a reliable EDA-aware assistant, significantly improving engineering productivity and offering a scalable pathway toward shorter design cycles and lower innovation costs in the electronics sector.
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14098
