Hardware Phi-1.5B: A Large Language Model Encodes Hardware Domain Specific Knowledge

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In the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry, where research, design, verification, and manufacturing are intricately linked, the potential of Large Language Models to revolutionize hardware design and security verification is immense.

• The primary challenge, however, lies in the complexity of hardware specific issues that are not adequately addressed by the natural language or software code knowledge typically acquired during the pretraining stage.
• Additionally, the scarcity of datasets specific to the hardware domain poses a significant hurdle in developing a foundational model.
• Addressing these challenges, this paper introduces Hardware Phi 1.5B, an innovative large language model specifically tailored for the hardware domain of the semiconductor industry.