Inspector: Conversational and Lightweight Analyzer of Analog Circuit Layouts Using LLM and CNNs

arXiv:2609.34976 · cs.LG, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/hardware-fab/Inspector

Terminology

• Accuracy — 19× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Analyzer — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Semantic Understanding — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• High-Pass Filter — 1× in this paper
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design — 1× in this paper
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• ChipGPT: How far are we from natural language hardware design
• AnalogCoder: Analog Circuit Design via Training-Free Code Generation
• InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HD
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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