AI ResearchJun 26, 2026, 5:21 PM

Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution

TickrWire Editorial Desk·Jun 26, 2026, 5:21 PM·1 min read AI-assisted, human-reviewed

Reported by arXiv cs.AI: Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution. Analysis and context written by TickrWire.

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HORIZON introduces an agent framework that autonomously evolves hardware design artifacts as repository-level code, extending self-evolution techniques from EDA software to hardware design. Evaluated on ChipBench, RTLLM, Verilog-Eval, and ni.

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We present HORIZON, a self-evolving agent framework that treats hardware design as repository-level code evolution. A Markdown harness is compiled into a project pack containing domain knowledge, an executable evaluator, an acceptance predicate, and a git/runtime policy; a hands-free agent loop then evolves an isolated git worktree, using repository operations for state management, tracing, and replay. This extends prior works of repository-scale self-evolution from EDA software systems, to hardware-design artifacts themselves. We evaluate our approach on ChipBench, RTLLM, Verilog-Eval, and ni

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