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 …

The policy-gradient placement and generative routing neural networks for chip design

R Cheng, X Lyu, Y Li, J Ye, J Hao… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Placement and routing are two critical yet time-consuming steps of chip design in modern
VLSI systems. Distinct from traditional heuristic solvers, this paper on one hand proposes an …

GeniusRoute: A new analog routing paradigm using generative neural network guidance

K Zhu, M Liu, Y Lin, B Xu, S Li, X Tang… - 2019 IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to sensitive layout-dependent effects and varied performance metrics, analog routing
automation for performance-driven layout synthesis is difficult to generalize. Existing …

Understanding graphs in EDA: From shallow to deep learning

Y Ma, Z He, W Li, L Zhang, B Yu - Proceedings of the 2020 international …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
As the scale of integrated circuits keeps increasing, it is witnessed that there is a surge in the
research of electronic design automation (EDA) to make the technology node scaling …

Computational lithography using machine learning models

Y Shin - IPSJ Transactions on System and LSI Design …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Machine learning models have been applied to a wide range of computational lithography
applications since around 2010. They provide higher modeling capability, so their …

Flowtune: Practical multi-armed bandits in boolean optimization

C Yu - Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen increasing employment of decision intelligence in electronic design
automation (EDA), which aims to reduce the manual efforts and boost the design closure …

Decision making in synthesis cross technologies using lstms and transfer learning

C Yu, W Zhou - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE Workshop on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We propose a general approach that precisely estimates the Quality-of-Result (QoR), such
as delay and area, of unseen synthesis flows for specific designs. The main idea is …

Diffpattern: Layout pattern generation via discrete diffusion

Z Wang, Y Shen, W Zhao, Y Bai, G Chen… - 2023 60th ACM/IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep generative models dominate the existing literature in layout pattern generation.
However, leaving the guarantee of legality to an inexplicable neural network could be …

Layoutransformer: Generating layout patterns with transformer via sequential pattern modeling

L Wen, Y Zhu, L Ye, G Chen, B Yu, J Liu… - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Generating legal and diverse layout patterns to establish large pattern libraries is
fundamental for many lithography design applications. Existing pattern generation models …

Label-free neural networks-based inverse lithography technology

JT Chen, YY Zhao, Y Zhang, JX Zhu, XM Duan - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Neural network-based inverse lithography technology (NNILT) has been used to improve
the computational efficiency of large-scale mask optimization for advanced …