Clicking through three levels of links, the non peer-reviewed paper discussed in that article is this one:
<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13243.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13243.pdf</a><p>Short summary - it still needs a human expert to identify and sort out the plagiarized bullshit generated by ChatGPT and similar LLMs to obtain syntactically and semantically correct Verilog code even for a very simple 8 bit architecture.<p>While this might be a novel way to do design space exploration, it seems to be a pretty frustrating approach to me…