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This Master's thesis project investigates the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in understanding and accomplishing RTL design tasks for real chip designs, moving beyond pure code generation. It aims to enhance open-source LLMs for this purpose and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of LLM-generated RTL code. The project involves setting up and extending existing RTL benchmarks, evaluating a local LLM, and improving its performance through targeted fine-tuning algorithms like LoRA adapters, potentially leveraging task feedback techniques. This is a collaboration between IIS (ETH Zurich) and Chipmind AG.

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