Machine learning for electronic design automation: A survey

G Huang, J Hu, Y He, J Liu, M Ma, Z Shen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
With the down-scaling of CMOS technology, the design complexity of very large-scale
integrated is increasing. Although the application of machine learning (ML) techniques in …

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 …

Machine learning techniques in analog/RF integrated circuit design, synthesis, layout, and test

E Afacan, N Lourenço, R Martins, G Dündar - Integration, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid developments in semiconductor technology have substantially increased the
computational capability of computers. As a result of this and recent developments in theory …

A survey of machine learning for computer architecture and systems

N Wu, Y **e - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022 - dl.acm.org
It has been a long time that computer architecture and systems are optimized for efficient
execution of machine learning (ML) models. Now, it is time to reconsider the relationship …

A customized graph neural network model for guiding analog IC placement

Y Li, Y Lin, M Madhusudan, A Sharma, W Xu… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Analog IC placement is typically a manual process that requires strong experience and trial-
and-error iterations as it produces a large impact to circuit performance in a complicated …

MAGICAL: Toward fully automated analog IC layout leveraging human and machine intelligence

B Xu, K Zhu, M Liu, Y Lin, S Li, X Tang… - 2019 IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite tremendous advancement of digital IC design automation tools over the last few
decades, analog IC layout is still heavily manual which is very tedious and error-prone. This …

MAGICAL: An open-source fully automated analog IC layout system from netlist to GDSII

H Chen, M Liu, B Xu, K Zhu, X Tang, S Li… - IEEE Design & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
MAGICAL: An Open-Source Fully Automated Analog IC Layout System from Netlist to GDSII
Page 1 2168-2356 (c) 2020 IEEE. Personal use is permitted, but republication/redistribution …

Towards decrypting the art of analog layout: Placement quality prediction via transfer learning

M Liu, K Zhu, J Gu, L Shen, X Tang… - … Design, Automation & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite tremendous efforts in analog layout automation, little adoption has been
demonstrated in practical design flows. Traditional analog layout synthesis tools use various …

Toward silicon-proven detailed routing for analog and mixed-signal circuits

H Chen, K Zhu, M Liu, X Tang, N Sun… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Detailed routing is an intricate and tedious procedure in design automation and has become
a crucial step for advanced node enablement. Compared with its advances in digital design …

Fast IR drop estimation with machine learning

Z **e, H Li, X Xu, J Hu, Y Chen - … of the 39th international conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
IR drop constraint is a fundamental requirement enforced in almost all chip designs.
However, its evaluation takes a long time, and mitigation techniques for fixing violations may …