ChipExpert-8B-Instruct

<div style="text-align:center"> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 24px;">ChipExpert-8B-Instruct</span></strong></p> </div> <!-- Provide a quick summary of what the model is/does. --> <div style="text-align:center"> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 24px;">The First Open-Source Integrated-Circuit-Design-Specific Large Language Model．</span></strong></p> </div> <p align="center"> 💻<a href="https://github.com/NCTIE/ChipExpert" target="_blank">Github</a> </p>

Introduction:

ChipExpert is the first open-source, instructional LLM dedicated to the Integrated-Circuit-Design industry, covering knowledge across multiple sub-domains, including analog circuits, digital circuits, radio frequency (RF), semiconductor devices, electronic design automation (EDA), system-on-chip (SoC), computing-in-memory, and more. This model aims to provide teaching assistant services for students in the field of IC to learn fundamental knowledge, engineers to inquire about technical details, and researchers to investigate cutting-edge papers and research topics. The ultimate goal of this model is to help the integrated circuit industry reduce the learning barrier and lower the training costs.

Key Features:

• The first Large Language Model (LLM) in the IC design field.
• A professional corpus covering ten specialized areas of IC design.
• Achieves superior performance in both foundational and cutting-edge knowledge compared to general LLMs.

Contributions

This project is the result of a collaborative effort：

Ning Xu^1,2    Zhaoyang Zhang^1,2    Lei Qi^1,2    Wensuo Wang¹    Chao Zhang¹    Zihao Ren² <br> Huaiyuan Zhang²    Yanqi Zhang²    Zhichao Liu²    Xing Wang²    Qingwen Wei²    Shiyang Wu² <br> Lanlan Yang²    Xin Geng²    Yuchen Ma²    Yutong Zhang²    Mengyao Kong² <br> Zhican Zhang²    Shiyang Wu²    Yao Wang²    Lanlan Yang¹    Chen Yang¹ <br> Qianfeng Lu²    Yiqun Ma²    Zhengxuan Wang²    Yaoyao Xu²    Chengjie Liu¹ <br> Mengyao Zhao²    Junbo Liu²    Yufan Song¹    Yuejian Shi²    Jun Yang^1,2

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¹National Center of Technology Innovation for EDA, Nanjing, China <br> ²Southeast University, Nanjing, China

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Model Description

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• Developed by: NCTIEDA (National Center of Technology Innovation for EDA) and Southeast University

<div style="display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center;"> <img src="images/logo.png" alt="Logo" style="width: 148px; height: 148px; margin-right: 20px;"> <img src="images/university-logo.png" alt="University Logo" style="width: 130px; height: 130px;"> </div> - Model type: Instruction Model - Language(s): English - License: Apache License 2.0 - Finetuned from model: Llama 3

Out-of-Scope Use

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This is the first version of ChipExpert, more capable versions with enhanced abilities will be released soon.

Citation

If you find our work helpful, please consider citing the following paper:

@article{chipexpert2024,
  title={ChipExpert: The First Open-Source Integrated-Circuit-Design-Specific Large Language Model},
  author={Ning Xu, ZhaoyangZhang et al.},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2024.xxxxx},
  year={2024}
}

Model Card Contact

• [email protected]