Rapid developments in semiconductor technology have substantially increased the
computational capability of computers. As a result of this and recent developments in theory …

Driven by Moore's law, the chip design complexity is steadily increasing. Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) has been able to cope with the challenging very large-scale integration …

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 …

Automated subcircuit identification and annotation enables the creation of hierarchical
representations of analog netlists, and can facilitate a variety of design automation tasks …

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of deep learning algorithms that learn from
graphs, networks and relational data. They have found applications throughout the sciences …

Analog layout synthesis requires some elements in the circuit netlist to be matched and
placed symmetrically. However, the set of symmetries is very circuit-specific and a versatile …

Recent research trends in analog layout synthesis aim for a fully automated netlist-to-GDSII
design flow with minimum human efforts. Due to the sensitiveness of analog circuit layouts …

Routing techniques for analog and radio-frequency (A/RF) integrated circuit (IC) design
automation have been proposed in the literature for over three decades. On those, an …