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Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs

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This paper cites Attention Is All You Need,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Attention Is All You Need,

Reference 1

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This paper cites Transformers: State- of-the-Art Natural Language Processing,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Transformers: State- of-the-Art Natural Language Processing,

Reference 2

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This paper cites 12 Practical Large Language Model (LLM) Applications,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs 12 Practical Large Language Model (LLM) Applications,

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This paper cites DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence

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Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code

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This paper cites DeepSeek-Coder-V2: Breaking the Barrier of Closed-Source Models in Code Intelligence.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs DeepSeek-Coder-V2: Breaking the Barrier of Closed-Source Models in Code Intelligence

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This paper cites The Stack: 3 TB of permissively licensed source code.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs The Stack: 3 TB of permissively licensed source code

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This paper cites An Introduction to Microsoft Copilot,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs An Introduction to Microsoft Copilot,

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This paper cites Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code

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This paper cites GPT-4 Technical Report.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs GPT-4 Technical Report

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This paper cites LLM4EDA: Emerging Progress in Large Language Models for Electronic Design Automation.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs LLM4EDA: Emerging Progress in Large Language Models for Electronic Design Automation

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This paper cites VeriGen: A Large Language Model for Cerilog Code Generation,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs VeriGen: A Large Language Model for Cerilog Code Generation,

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This paper cites Chip-Chat: Chal- lenges and Opportunities in Conversational Hardware Design,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Chip-Chat: Chal- lenges and Opportunities in Conversational Hardware Design,

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This paper cites ChipGPT: How far are we from natural language hardware design,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs ChipGPT: How far are we from natural language hardware design,

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This paper cites CodeV: Empowering LLMs with HDL Generation through Multi-Level Summarization.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs CodeV: Empowering LLMs with HDL Generation through Multi-Level Summarization

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This paper cites RTLCoder: Outperforming GPT-3.5 in Design RTL Generation with Our Open- Source Dataset and Lightweight Solution,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs RTLCoder: Outperforming GPT-3.5 in Design RTL Generation with Our Open- Source Dataset and Lightweight Solution,

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This paper cites BetterV: Controlled Verilog Generation with Discriminative Guidance.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs BetterV: Controlled Verilog Generation with Discriminative Guidance

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This paper cites Large Language Model for Verilog Generation with Code-Structure-Guided Reinforcement Learning.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Large Language Model for Verilog Generation with Code-Structure-Guided Reinforcement Learning

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This paper cites AutoChip: Automating HDL Generation Using LLM Feedback.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs AutoChip: Automating HDL Generation Using LLM Feedback

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This paper cites RTLFixer: Automatically Fixing RTL Syntax Errors with Large Language Model,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs RTLFixer: Automatically Fixing RTL Syntax Errors with Large Language Model,

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This paper cites OpenAI, Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs OpenAI, Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code,

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This paper cites RTL Hardware IP Protection Using Key-Based Control and Data Flow Obfuscation,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs RTL Hardware IP Protection Using Key-Based Control and Data Flow Obfuscation,

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This paper cites Copyright Traps for Large Language Models.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Copyright Traps for Large Language Models

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This paper cites Beyond Fair Use: Legal Risk Evaluation for Training LLMs on Copyrighted Text,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Beyond Fair Use: Legal Risk Evaluation for Training LLMs on Copyrighted Text,

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This paper cites Ongoing lawsuits could affect everyone who uses generative AI,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Ongoing lawsuits could affect everyone who uses generative AI,

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This paper cites Ex- ploring Memorization and Copyright Violation in Frontier LLMs: A Study of the New York Times v. OpenAI 2023 Lawsuit,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Ex- ploring Memorization and Copyright Violation in Frontier LLMs: A Study of the New York Times v. OpenAI 2023 Lawsuit,

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Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Digger: Detecting Copyright Content Mis-usage in Large Language Model Training

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Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs SHIELD: Evaluation and Defense Strategies for Copyright Compliance in LLM Text Generation

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Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs RTLLM: An Open-Source Benchmark for Design RTL Generation with Large Language Model,

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This paper cites (Security) Assertions by Large Language Models.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs (Security) Assertions by Large Language Models

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Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs OpenLLM-RTL: Open Dataset and Benchmark for LLM-Aided Design RTL Generation,

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This paper cites Make Every Move Count: LLM-based High-Quality RTL Code Generation Using MCTS.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Make Every Move Count: LLM-based High-Quality RTL Code Generation Using MCTS

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Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs CraftRTL: High-quality Synthetic Data Generation for Verilog Code Models with Correct-by-Construction Non-Textual Representations and Targeted Code Repair

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Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs OriGen:Enhancing RTL Code Generation with Code-to-Code Augmentation and Self-Reflection

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This paper cites GNN4IP: Graph Neural Network for Hardware Intellectual Property Piracy Detec- tion,.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs GNN4IP: Graph Neural Network for Hardware Intellectual Property Piracy Detec- tion,

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This paper cites Available: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ openai-microsoft-want-court-toss-lawsuit-accusing-them-abusing-open-source-code-2023-01-27/.

Free and Fair Hardware: A Pathway to Copyright Infringement-Free Verilog Generation using LLMs Available: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ openai-microsoft-want-court-toss-lawsuit-accusing-them-abusing-open-source-code-2023-01-27/

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