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 …

Painting on placement: Forecasting routing congestion using conditional generative adversarial nets

C Yu, Z Zhang - Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Physical design process commonly consumes hours to days for large designs, and routing is
known as the most critical step. Demands for accurate routing quality prediction raise to a …

High-definition routing congestion prediction for large-scale FPGAs

MB Alawieh, W Li, Y Lin, L Singhal… - 2020 25th Asia and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To speed up the FPGA placement and routing closure, we propose a novel approach to
predict the routing congestion map for large-scale FPGA designs at the placement stage …

Towards machine learning-based fpga backend flow: Challenges and opportunities

I Taj, U Farooq - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is at the core of System on Chip (SoC) design
across various Industry 5.0 digital systems—healthcare devices, farming equipment …

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 …

Machine-learning based congestion estimation for modern FPGAs

D Maarouf, A Alhyari, Z Abuowaimer… - … Conference on Field …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Avoiding congestion for routing resources has become one of the most important placement
objectives. In this paper, we present a machine-learning model for accurately and efficiently …

Attention routing: track-assignment detailed routing using attention-based reinforcement learning

H Liao, Q Dong, X Dong… - International …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In the physical design of integrated circuits, global and detailed routing are critical stages
involving the determination of the interconnected paths of each net on a circuit while …

A new paradigm for FPGA placement without explicit packing

W Li, DZ Pan - IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Placement and packing are two important but separated optimization steps in a conventional
field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation flow. A packing engine clusters logic …

A deep learning framework to predict routability for fpga circuit placement

A Al-Hyari, H Szentimrey, A Shamli, T Martin… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The ability to accurately and efficiently estimate the routability of a circuit based on its
placement is one of the most challenging and difficult tasks in the Field Programmable Gate …

elfplace: Electrostatics-based placement for large-scale heterogeneous fpgas

Y Meng, W Li, Y Lin, DZ Pan - IEEE Transactions on Computer …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
elfPlace is a flat nonlinear placement algorithm for large-scale heterogeneous field-
programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). We adopt the analogy between placement and …