# Fully automated processor chip design: motivation, challenges and future directions

**Authors:** Rui Zhang, Jiaming Guo, Shuyao Cheng, Yunji Chen

PMC · DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaf532 · National Science Review · 2025-11-29

## TL;DR

This paper discusses the development of fully automated systems for designing processor chips, highlighting motivations, challenges, and proposed solutions.

## Contribution

The paper introduces a framework with core components to address key challenges in fully automated processor chip design.

## Key findings

- Fully automated design can reduce time and cost in chip development.
- Three key challenges include design complexity, tool integration, and verification.
- A framework with core components is proposed to overcome these challenges.

## Abstract

An overview of fully automated processor chip design, including its research motivations, three key challenges, and the overall framework with core components developed to address these challenges.

## Full-text entities

- **Diseases:** MOTIVATION (MESH:D003072), LLMs (MESH:D007806)
- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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## References

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