Logic locking is a design concealment mechanism for protecting the IPs integrated into
modern System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures from a wide range of hardware security threats …

Given the significance of placement in IC physical design, extensive research studies
performed over the last 50 years addressed numerous aspects of global and detailed …

Despite an increasing adoption of high-level synthesis (HLS) for its design productivity
advantages, there remains a significant gap in the achievable clock frequency between an …

The increasing complexity and size of design space poses significant challenges for
integrated circuit (IC) design. This article discusses the potential of machine learning (ML) …

Decades of progress in energy-efficient and low-power design have successfully reduced
the operational carbon footprint in the semiconductor industry. However, this has led to …

This paper describes an innovative design automation tool, LAYGEN II, for analog integrated
circuit (IC) layout generation based on template descriptions and on evolutionary …

Highly-optimized placements may lead to irreparable routing congestion due to inadequate
models of modern interconnect stacks and the impact of partial routing obstacles. Additional …

Placement is essential in very large-scale integration (VLSI) physical design, as it directly
affects the design cycle. Despite extensive prior research on placement, achieving fast and …

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) enhances the accuracy and reliability of generative
AI models by sourcing factual information from external databases, which is extensively …

Advances in semiconductor fabrication technology have produced explosive growth in the
number of transistors within an integrated circuit (IC). Modern devices consist of dozens of …