MLCAD: A survey of research in machine learning for CAD keynote paper

M Rapp, H Amrouch, Y Lin, B Yu… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the increasing size of integrated circuits (ICs), their design and optimization phases
(ie, computer-aided design, CAD) grow increasingly complex. At design time, a large design …

Advancing placement

AB Kahng - Proceedings of the 2021 International Symposium on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Placement is central to IC physical design: it determines spatial embedding, and hence
parasitics and performance. From coarse-to fine-grain, placement is conjointly optimized …

Machine learning for CAD/EDA: the road ahead

AB Kahng - IEEE Design & Test, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine Learning for CAD/EDA: The Road Ahead Page 1 1 Machine Learning for CAD/EDA:
The Road Ahead Andrew B. Kahng UCSD CSE and ECE Departments, La Jolla, CA 92093-0404 …

Metrics2. 1 and flow tuning in the ieee ceda robust design flow and openroad iccad special session paper

J Jung, AB Kahng, S Kim… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In today's RTL-to-GDS flow domain, there is a lack of standards for reporting of design and
tool metrics. Moreover, each tool or engine has its own set of parameters that can change …

RTL-MP: toward practical, human-quality chip planning and macro placement

AB Kahng, R Varadarajan, Z Wang - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In a typical RTL-to-GDSII flow, floorplanning plays an essential role in achieving decent
quality of results (QoR). A good floorplan typically requires interaction between the frontend …

Routability prediction and optimization using explainable AI

S Park, D Kim, S Kwon, S Kang - 2023 IEEE/ACM International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning (ML) techniques have been widely studied to predict routability in early-
stage. To reduce the design turn-around time during the placement and routing iterations, it …

A machine learning approach to improving timing consistency between global route and detailed route

VA Chhabria, W Jiang, AB Kahng… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Due to the unavailability of routing information in design stages prior to detailed routing
(DR), the tasks of timing prediction and optimization pose major challenges. Inaccurate …

Solvers, Engines, Tools and Flows: The Next Wave for AI/ML in Physical Design

AB Kahng - Proceedings of the 2024 International Symposium on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
It has been six years since an ISPD-2018 invited talk on" Machine Learning Applications in
Physical Design". Since then, despite considerable activity across both academia and …

ML for Design QoR Prediction

AB Kahng, Z Wang - Machine Learning Applications in Electronic Design …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Design quality of results (QoR) spans metrics of design process outcomes, such as
power, performance, area, or runtime, at all stages of the design process. Prediction of …

[PDF][PDF] Application of Machine Learning to Physical Design

VB Pawar - San Francisco State University, 2022 - scholarworks.calstate.edu
The special features we may put in SoCs are no longer primarily constrained by chip space
limitations because of Moore's law's exponential increase in transistor density. Instead, the …