From Quips to Chips

This book demystifies the process of using artificial intelligence to generate high quality digital hardware designs. It is written at a level useful for students, educators, and enthusiasts. The authors explore how the latest developments in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be harnessed to provide this automation, converting specifications in plain language into the Verilog hardware description language. They present an abridged history of these AI, and provide hands-on case studies and experiments showing how practitioners and researchers can adopt them for their digital hardware design tasks. Coverage includes practical techniques for prompt engineering and methods for AI ‘rigging’, so readers can leverage AI to design their own custom computing chips.