Chip design with machine learning: a survey from algorithm perspective

W He, X Li, X Song, Y Hao, R Zhang, Z Du… - Science China …, 2023 - Springer
Chip design with machine learning (ML) has been widely explored to achieve better
designs, lower runtime costs, and no human-in-the-loop process. However, with tons of …

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 …

Deepgate2: Functionality-aware circuit representation learning

Z Shi, H Pan, S Khan, M Li, Y Liu… - 2023 IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Circuit representation learning aims to obtain neural repre-sentations of circuit elements and
has emerged as a promising research direction that can be applied to various EDA and logic …

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 …

Scalable and Effective Arithmetic Tree Generation for Adder and Multiplier Designs

Y Lai, J Liu, DZ Pan, P Luo - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.06758, 2024 - arxiv.org
Across a wide range of hardware scenarios, the computational efficiency and physical size
of the arithmetic units significantly influence the speed and footprint of the overall hardware …

DeepGate3: towards scalable circuit representation learning

Z Shi, Z Zheng, S Khan, J Zhong, M Li, Q Xu - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Circuit representation learning has shown promising results in advancing the field of
Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Existing models, such as DeepGate Family, primarily …

DeepSeq: Deep Sequential Circuit Learning

S Khan, Z Shi, M Li, Q Xu - 2024 Design, Automation & Test in …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we propose DeepSeq, a novel representation learning framework for sequential
netlists. It employs a graph neural network (GNN) with customized propagation to capture …

DeepSeq2: Enhanced Sequential Circuit Learning with Disentangled Representations

S Khan, Z Shi, Z Zheng, M Li, Q Xu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.00530, 2024 - arxiv.org
Circuit representation learning is increasingly pivotal in Electronic Design Automation
(EDA), serving various downstream tasks with enhanced model efficiency and accuracy …

EDA-Driven Preprocessing for SAT Solving

Z Shi, T Tang, S Khan, HL Zhen, M Yuan, Z Chu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Effective formulation of problems into Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) is critical in modern
Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solving for optimizing solver performance. Addressing the …

Test Point Selection Using Deep Graph Convolutional Networks and Advantage Actor Critic (A2C) Reinforcement Learning

S Wei, K Shiotani, S Wang, H Kai… - … on Circuits/Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identifying optimal test points to maximize fault coverage is crucial for improving field tests of
large-scale integrated circuits (LSIs). In this paper, we introduce Deep-TPs-Explorer, a …