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| author | Davidson, Jasper Stockham, Skylar Boston, Allen Snelgrove, Ashton Tenace, Valerio Gaillardon, Pierre-Emmanuel |
| author_facet | Davidson, Jasper Stockham, Skylar Boston, Allen Snelgrove, Ashton Tenace, Valerio Gaillardon, Pierre-Emmanuel |
| contents | Microfluidic devices have emerged as powerful tools in various laboratory applications, but the complexity of their design limits accessibility for many practitioners. While progress has been made in microfluidic design automation (MFDA), a practical and intuitive solution is still needed to connect microfluidic practitioners with MFDA techniques. This work introduces the first practical application of large language models (LLMs) in this context, providing a preliminary demonstration. Building on prior research in hardware description language (HDL) code generation with LLMs, we propose an initial methodology to convert natural language microfluidic device specifications into system-level structural Verilog netlists. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by generating structural netlists for practical benchmarks representative of typical microfluidic designs with correct functional flow and an average syntactical accuracy of 88%. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Automated Generation of Microfluidic Netlists using Large Language Models Davidson, Jasper Stockham, Skylar Boston, Allen Snelgrove, Ashton Tenace, Valerio Gaillardon, Pierre-Emmanuel Artificial Intelligence Microfluidic devices have emerged as powerful tools in various laboratory applications, but the complexity of their design limits accessibility for many practitioners. While progress has been made in microfluidic design automation (MFDA), a practical and intuitive solution is still needed to connect microfluidic practitioners with MFDA techniques. This work introduces the first practical application of large language models (LLMs) in this context, providing a preliminary demonstration. Building on prior research in hardware description language (HDL) code generation with LLMs, we propose an initial methodology to convert natural language microfluidic device specifications into system-level structural Verilog netlists. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by generating structural netlists for practical benchmarks representative of typical microfluidic designs with correct functional flow and an average syntactical accuracy of 88%. |
| title | Automated Generation of Microfluidic Netlists using Large Language Models |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19297 |