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From Natural Language to Silicon: The Representation Bottleneck in LLM Hardware Design

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Main Authors:	Fu, Weimin, Wang, Zeng, Shao, Minghao, Knechtel, Johann, Sinanoglu, Ozgur, Karri, Ramesh, Shafique, Muhammad, Guo, Xiaolong
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Hardware Architecture
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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