[2606.28279] Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution

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[Submitted on 26 Jun 2026]

Title:Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution

Authors:Cunxi Yu, Chenhui Deng, Nathaniel Pinckney, Brucek Khailany<br>View a PDF of the paper titled Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution, by Cunxi Yu and Chenhui Deng and Nathaniel Pinckney and Brucek Khailany

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Abstract: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 nine CVDP categories, achieving 100\% benchmark completion across all suites with a fully hands-free agentic loop. However, we do not claim that agentic AI for hardware design is solved: these benchmarks are controlled proxies for a much broader engineering problem in chip design. Section~\ref{sec:discuss} examines the limitations of the current study and highlights open research challenges.

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Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.28279

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Submission history<br>From: Cunxi Yu [view email]<br>[v1]<br>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:21:06 UTC (221 KB)

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