提出手稿有效性框架,解决EDA中跨阶段协作的信任问题。
Agentic Electronic Design Automation: A Handoff Perspective

- 以手稿有效性为核心,定义跨阶段传递对象的合规标准。
- 分类82个系统,归纳三类边界:阶段、流程与组织边界。
- 提出五层代理通信协议,支撑可信自动化设计流程。
电子设计自动化(EDA)具有多阶段、高交接特征。设计资产、流程脚本和工程决策在最终实现、签核或发布前需跨越工具、会话和组织边界。每次交接都包含显式与隐式要求,可能无法通过局部检查完全捕获。基于大模型的智能体可直接调用EDA工具,将检索知识嵌入可执行脚本,并在会话与阶段间传递状态。一旦其输出影响下游决策,所传递对象必须满足交接契约并符合下一消费者假设。本文引入手稿有效性作为核心原则:当传递对象满足接收方接受条件并携带足够上下文、证据与溯源信息时,交接即为有效。我们回顾82个系统,分为三类边界:阶段内系统确保单个阶段内有效性;流程内系统维持跨工具、调用与会话的工作流一致性;组织内系统保持跨知识与权限边界的源头可追溯性、证明力、范围界定与可接纳性。针对每类,分析交接契约、交接对象、协调机制与未解问题。这些分析推动构建五层EDA代理通信协议(EACP),涵盖代理发现、消息传递、工具调用、工作流编排及安全与知识产权协议。旨在为可信智能体化EDA提供统一术语与研究方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Electronic design automation (EDA) is inherently multi-stage and handoff-heavy. Design artifacts, flow scripts, and engineering decisions cross tool, session, and organizational boundaries before final implementation, signoff, or release. Each transfer carries explicit and implicit requirements that may not be fully captured by stage-local checks. LLM-based agents now invoke EDA tools directly, embed retrieved knowledge in executable scripts, and hand off state across sessions and stages. Once their outputs condition downstream engineering decisions, the transferred object must satisfy a handoff contract and meet the assumptions of its next consumer. This survey introduces handoff validity as its organizing principle. A handoff is valid when the transferred object satisfies the consumer's acceptance conditions and carries sufficient context, evidence, and provenance for downstream use. We review 82 systems and classify them into three boundary classes. Stage-Bound systems establish validity within a single EDA stage or bounded verification task. Flow-Bound systems preserve coherent workflow state across tools, invocations, and sessions. Organization-Bound systems maintain source grounding, provenance, scope, and admissibility across knowledge and authority boundaries. For each class, we analyze handoff contracts, handoff objects, coordination mechanisms, and open questions. These analyses motivate a five-layer EDA agent communication protocol (EACP), covering the agent discovery, agent message, tool invocation, workflow orchestration, and security and IP protocols. We aim to provide a common vocabulary and research agenda for trustworthy agentic EDA.
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