LLM-Driven, Datasheet-Aware Automated Hardware Compatibility Verification for Early-Stage, Pre-Schematic Embedded System Design

📅 2026-08-25
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该研究提出一种基于大语言模型和数据手册的框架,用于早期嵌入式系统设计中的硬件兼容性验证,通过构建设计图和分解任务提高准确性和效率。
📝 Abstract
We present an LLM-driven, datasheet-aware framework for early-stage hardware compatibility verification that identifies documentation-level interface incompatibilities based on hardware datasheets and high-level component connectivity descriptions. It does not require, and can therefore be used, before detailed schematic simulation and implementation. We view trustworthy LLM-assisted design automation not as directly generating answers from documents, but as transforming engineering information through traceable verification stages. Given hardware datasheets and high-level component connectivity descriptions, the framework constructs a design graph that captures device connectivity and shared interaction domains, retrieves only the engineering properties required by explicit, domain-oriented verification criteria , and generates deterministic scripts for compatibility evaluation. By decomposing compatibility analysis into modular stages and preserving intermediate results, the framework reduces context overhead, improves transparency and tractability, enables scaling, and avoids reliance on LLMs for numerical computation. Evaluated on seven embedded-system designs comprising 34 datasheets, our framework achieves 97.5% compatibility-verification accuracy and an 8.6 times reduction in input context size compared with ``upload-and-query'' workflows. These results demonstrate the feasibility of LLM-assisted, specification-based hardware compatibility verification at an early design stage, as well as the need for, and substantial benefits of, modular task decomposition, formalized verification criteria, and task-aware compact context construction.
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LLM-driven
datasheet-aware
hardware compatibility verification
early-stage design
interface incompatibilities
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LLM-driven
datasheet-aware
early-stage hardware compatibility verification
modular task decomposition
compact context construction
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Haotian Qiao
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Robert P. Dick
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA