Exploring LLM-based Verilog Code Generation with Data-Efficient Fine-Tuning and Testbench Automation
arXiv cs.AI / 4/20/2026
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Key Points
- The paper argues that while LLMs have improved code generation, their application to hardware description languages like Verilog is still comparatively limited.
- It proposes a workflow that uses multi-agent models to automatically generate testbenches, producing higher-quality fine-tuning data when such resources are scarce.
- After fine-tuning, the model for the specification-to-Verilog task achieves performance on the refined VerilogEval v2 benchmark comparable to state-of-the-art approaches.
- The approach reaches that level of performance while requiring less training data than typical methods, and it is positioned as a foundation for future HDL generation and automated verification work.
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