{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/designing-silicon-brains-using-llm-leveraging","title":"Designing Silicon Brains using LLM: Leveraging ChatGPT for Automated Description of a Spiking Neuron Array","arxiv_id":"2402.10920","date":"2024-01-25","proceeding":null,"authors":["Michael Tomlinson","Joe Li","Andreas Andreou"],"abstract":"Large language models (LLMs) have made headlines for synthesizing correct-sounding responses to a variety of prompts, including code generation. In this paper, we present the prompts used to guide ChatGPT4 to produce a synthesizable and functional verilog description for the entirety of a programmable Spiking Neuron Array ASIC. This design flow showcases the current state of using ChatGPT4 for natural language driven hardware design. The AI-generated design was verified in simulation using handcrafted testbenches and has been submitted for fabrication in Skywater 130nm through Tiny Tapeout 5 using an open-source EDA flow.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10920v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.10920v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"designing-silicon-brains-using-llm-leveraging","repo_url":"https://github.com/Andreou-JHULabOrg/tinytapeout_05_chatgpt_snn","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"code-generation","task_name":"Code Generation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}