Maskplace: Fast chip placement via reinforced visual representation learning

Y Lai, Y Mu, P Luo - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Placement is an essential task in modern chip design, aiming at placing millions of circuit
modules on a 2D chip canvas. Unlike the human-centric solution, which requires months of …

Progress of Placement Optimization for Accelerating VLSI Physical Design

Y Qiu, Y Xing, X Zheng, P Gao, S Cai, X Xiong - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Placement is essential in very large-scale integration (VLSI) physical design, as it directly
affects the design cycle. Despite extensive prior research on placement, achieving fast and …

RL-Legalizer: Reinforcement Learning-based Cell Priority Optimization in Mixed-Height Standard Cell Legalization

SY Lee, S Park, D Kim, M Kim, TP Le… - … Design, Automation & …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell legalization order has a substantial effect on the quality of modern VLSI designs, which
use mixed-height standard cells. In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning …