Benchmark RadarAI BENCHMARK PROFILE
CLOSER-Bench
CLOSER-Bench evaluates budgeted cross-stage design closure for hardware agents with spec-to-RTL, RTL-to-GDS, and spec-to-GDS tasks, using open-source tools and recording quality, progress, tool cost, and recovery.
- Released
- 2026-07-18
- Readiness
- Paper only
- Primary field
- Industrial & Engineering
Why it matters
Provides a controlled protocol for hardware design closure, addressing the gap in evaluating agents across abstraction boundaries.
Motivation
Hardware engineering exposes coding agents to a form of long-horizon work that is difficult to capture with pass-at-k: progress is continuous, tool feedback is delayed and heterogeneous, and a backend failure may require revising RTL rather than tuning another physical-design parameter.
Primary resources
Benchmark Radar records only publicly supported details and links back to primary sources for verification.