Large circuit models: opportunities and challenges

L Chen, Y Chen, Z Chu, W Fang, TY Ho… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
Within the electronic design automation (EDA) domain, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven
solutions have emerged as formidable tools, yet they typically augment rather than redefine …

Accurate timing prediction at placement stage with look-ahead rc network

X He, Z Fu, Y Wang, C Liu, Y Guo - Proceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Timing closure is a critical but effort-taking task in VLSI designs. In placement stage, a fast
and accurate net delay estimator is highly desirable to guide the timing optimization prior to …

Machine learning for agile fpga design

D Pal, C Deng, E Ustun, C Yu, Z Zhang - Machine Learning Applications in …, 2022 - Springer
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become popular means of hardware
acceleration since they offer massive parallelism, flexible configurability, and potentially …

FlowTune: End-to-end automatic logic optimization exploration via domain-specific multiarmed bandit

WL Neto, Y Li, PE Gaillardon… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Design flows are the explicit combinations of design transformations, primarily involved in
synthesis, placement, and routing processes, to accomplish the design of integrated circuits …

The dawn of ai-native eda: Promises and challenges of large circuit models

L Chen, Y Chen, Z Chu, W Fang, TY Ho… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Within the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) domain, AI-driven solutions have emerged
as formidable tools, yet they typically augment rather than redefine existing methodologies …

Transferable pre-synthesis ppa estimation for rtl designs with data augmentation techniques

W Fang, Y Lu, S Liu, Q Zhang, C Xu… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In modern VLSI design flow, evaluating the quality of register-transfer level (RTL) designs
involves time-consuming logic synthesis using EDA tools, a process that often slows down …

SLAP: A supervised learning approach for priority cuts technology mapping

WL Neto, MT Moreira, Y Li, L Amarù… - 2021 58th ACM/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently we have seen many works that leverage Machine Learning (ML) techniques in
optimizing Electronic Design Automation (EDA) process. However, the uses of ML …

敏捷设计中基于机器学习的静态时序分析方法综述

贺旭, 王耀, 傅智勇, 李暾, 屈婉霞, 万海… - 计算机辅助设计与图形学 …, 2023 - jcad.cn
随着集成电路规模越来越大, 设计变得越来越复杂. 为了有效地提升设计生产率,
芯片敏捷设计受到越来越广泛的重视. 在芯片RTL-to-GDSII 设计流程中, 敏捷设计方法需要广泛 …

GraPhSyM: Graph Physical Synthesis Model

A Agiza, R Roy, TD Ene, S Godil… - 2023 IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we introduce GraPhSyM, a Graph Attention Network (GATv2) model for fast and
accurate estimation of post-physical synthesis circuit delay and area metrics from pre …

MapTune: Advancing ASIC Technology Mapping via Reinforcement Learning Guided Library Tuning

M Liu, D Robinson, Y Li, C Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.18110, 2024 - arxiv.org
Technology mapping involves mapping logical circuits to a library of cells. Traditionally, the
full technology library is used, leading to a large search space and potential overhead …