A team of researchers with the New York State University (NYU) has done the seemingly impossible: they’ve successfully designed a semiconductor chip with no hardware definition language. Using only plain English - and the definitions and examples within it that can define and describe a semiconductor processor - the team showcased what human ingenuity, curiosity, and baseline knowledge can do when aided by the AI prowess of ChatGPT.

While surprising, it goes further: the chip wasn’t only designed. It was manufactured; it was benchmarked, and it worked. The two hardware engineers’ usage of plain English showcases just how valuable and powerful ChatGPT can be (as if we still had doubts, following the number of awe-inspiring things it’s done already).

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Chip-Chat: Challenges and Opportunities in Conversational Hardware Design