Large Language Models (LLMs) offer transformative capabilities for hardware
design automation, particularly in Verilog code generation. However, they also
pose significant data security challenges, including Verilog evaluation data
contamination, intellectual property (IP) design leakage, and the risk of
malicious Verilog generation. We introduce SALAD, a comprehensive assessment
that leverages machine unlearning to mitigate these threats. Our approach
enables the selective removal of contaminated benchmarks, sensitive IP and
design artifacts, or malicious code patterns from pre-trained LLMs, all without
requiring full retraining. Through detailed case studies, we demonstrate how
machine unlearning techniques effectively reduce data security risks in
LLM-aided hardware design.