PDAGENT-BENCH: Characterizing, Grounding, and Architecting LLM Agents for VLSI Physical Design (opens in new tab)

Large Language Models and vision-language models have shown remarkable success in the front-end design of Very Large-Scale Integrated Circuits, yet their capabilities for VLSI physical design remain significantly underexplored. The primary cause is the lack of standardized benchmarks for evaluating agentic physical design workflows that require high-dimensional, multi-stage optimization under strict design constraints, coordinated interaction wi...