FVEval: Understanding Language Model Capabilities in Formal Verification of Digital Hardware
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FVEval: benchmark of LLMs on SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) and RTL reasoning
- scored with commercial FV tools (compile, equivalence, proof), not text similarity
- three tasks
- NL2SVA-Human: 79 expert assertions (FIFOs, arbiters, counters, RAMs, FSMs), given testbench context
- NL2SVA-Machine: 300 synthetic NL/SVA pairs
- randomized formulas, LLM paraphrase, critic check, human audit
- Design2SVA: 96 pipelines + 96 FSMs, assertions from RTL alone, proof pass@k
- metrics reported separately: syntax, exact equivalence, partial (one-way implication), BLEU main finding: large syntax vs function gap
- GPT-4o NL2SVA-Human: syntax 0.911, exact 0.456, partial 0.582
- GPT-4o NL2SVA-Machine 3-shot: syntax 0.927, exact 0.430, partial 0.540
- GPT-4o Design2SVA pass@5: pipelines 0.427, FSMs 0.900
- syntactically valid assertion often misses the intended property
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