Manifold: an SMT-based declarative language for electronic and microfluidic design synthesis
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
We introduce the Manifold systems description language, a high-level declarative programming language that is similar to hardware description languages but able to describe a wide range of systems, including digital circuits and microfluidic devices. We also demonstrate a toolchain for the Manifold language, including a high-level language compiler, intermediate representation, and a backend for design of microfluidic devices. The goal of our toolchain is to provide a simple and effective way to construct EDA-like tools for domains such as microfluidics, and to be able to apply computer-aided reasoning tools such as SMT solvers to synthesis and verification tasks in these domains. The language and toolchain fill a niche, as currently, microfluidic components and devices are designed by hand, with very limited use of electronic design automation or computer-aided verification of the resulting designs. We show the validity of our approach by designing and simulating a number of microfluidic components.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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