SNUG Silicon Valley published my article about the students and AI tools

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Yuri Panchul

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Mar 16, 2026, 11:32:25 AMMar 16

to SystemVerilog Meetups in Silicon Valley

SNUG Silicon Valley 2026, an influential conference on tools for chip design, published my paper that analyzes the mistakes AI tools and EE students make in SystemVerilog. Apparently, neither AI nor students are properly trained in data pipelining, flow control, distributing workload and similar microarchitectural issues. Yes, I do realize that AI abilities are a moving target. Whenever I create a challenge AI cannot crack, somebody leaks it to the internet, and AI is able to solve it in two to six months. However an intern striving to be a designer should be able to solve such tasks without AI, even if he plans to use AI. Otherwise he will not recognize some nasty AI-generated surprises, and then the millions of phones, internet routers, controllers for airplane turbines or whatever he designs are going to be dead on arrival.

The paper PDF:

https://verilog-meetup.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/yuri_panchul_2026_02_03_snug_silicon_valley_paper.pdf