Agentic Electronic Design Automation: A Handoff Perspective

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2606.19795v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Electronic design automation (EDA) is multi-stage and handoff-heavy, relying on transfers among humans, design artifacts, and multiple tools. LLM-based agents now participate in these transfers, yet the resulting research landscape is highly fragmented and lacks a unified perspective. This survey adopts the primary input--output pair as its organizing lens: for each agent system, we analyze its primary, supporting, and intermediate handoff objects and classify it according to the provenance of its primary input and the consumer boundary of its primary output. Intra-stage systems operate on objects within a single EDA stage, inter-stage systems transform EDA-native artifacts into forms usable by downstream stages, and extra-stage sys