RF-Agent: A Practical Framework for Building Language Agents for RFIC Design
Yueqi Xing, Houbo He, Jolie Wang, Erin Ni, Shikai Wang, Qiufeng Li, Weidong Cao, Taiyun Chi
Abstract
Large language models (LLMs) have driven rapid progress in electronic design automation (EDA), yet their application to radio-frequency (RF) circuit design remains limited by the scarcity of domain-specific datasets and standardized benchmarks. We present RF-Agent, which addresses this gap through textbook-driven knowledge distillation. A multi-agent Question-Thinking-Solution-Answer (QTSA) pipeline converts a subsection-level corpus from seven canonical RF textbooks into the first-of-its-kind RF-domain reasoning dataset (over 11,000 samples) with a dedicated multiple-choice benchmark. On this benchmark we study two adaptation strategies: supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and three retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) configurations (semantic, keyword, hybrid). Across multiple LLM families, domain-specific SFT significantly improves RF reasoning, especially for small and medium-sized models; among RAG configurations, semantic retrieval performs best, indicating embedding-based context alignment suits RF reasoning better than naive fusion. The dataset and benchmark provide a reusable foundation for future work on LLM-aided RF circuit design.
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