Applications of artificial intelligence on the modeling and optimization for analog and mixed-signal circuits: A review

M Fayazi, Z Colter, E Afshari… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, there have been many studies attempting to take advantage of advancements in
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Analog and Mixed-Signal (AMS) circuit design. Automated circuit …

Re-thinking analog integrated circuits in digital terms: A new design concept for the IoT era

P Toledo, R Rubino, F Musolino… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A steady trend towards the design of mostly-digital and digital-friendly analog circuits,
suitable to integration in mainstream nanoscale CMOS by a highly automated design flow …

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 …

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 …

Automating analog constraint extraction: From heuristics to learning

K Zhu, H Chen, M Liu, DZ Pan - 2022 27th Asia and South …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analog layout synthesis has recently received much attention to mitigate the increasing cost
of manual layout efforts. To achieve the desired performance and design specifications …

Tag: Learning circuit spatial embedding from layouts

K Zhu, H Chen, WJ Turner, GF Kokai, PH Wei… - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Analog and mixed-signal (AMS) circuit designs still rely on human design expertise.
Machine learning has been assisting circuit design automation by replacing human …

Reinforcement learning guided detailed routing for custom circuits

H Chen, KC Hsu, WJ Turner, PH Wei, K Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Detailed routing is the most tedious and complex procedure in design automation and has
become a determining factor in layout automation in advanced manufacturing nodes …

Tutorial and perspectives on MAGICAL: A silicon-proven open-source analog IC layout system

K Zhu, H Chen, M Liu, DZ Pan - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
MAGICAL is an open-source system for analog and mixed-signal (AMS) circuit layout
synthesis. Using custom place-and-route and constraint extraction algorithms, MAGICAL …

Joint optimization of sizing and layout for AMS designs: Challenges and opportunities

AF Budak, K Zhu, H Chen, S Poddar, L Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in analog device sizing algorithms show promising results on the
automatic schematic design. However, the majority of the sizing algorithms are based on …

Generative-adversarial-network-guided well-aware placement for analog circuits

K Zhu, H Chen, M Liu, X Tang, W Shi… - 2022 27th Asia and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generating wells for transistors is an essential challenge in analog circuit layout synthesis.
While it is closely related to analog placement, very little research has explicitly considered …