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 …

MLCAD: A survey of research in machine learning for CAD keynote paper

M Rapp, H Amrouch, Y Lin, B Yu… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the increasing size of integrated circuits (ICs), their design and optimization phases
(ie, computer-aided design, CAD) grow increasingly complex. At design time, a large design …

Enhanced Lithographic Hotspot Detection via Multi-Task Deep Learning with Synthetic Pattern Generation

S Chen, Z Shao, Y Niu, L Fan - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lithographic hotspot detection is crucial for ensuring manufacturability and yield in
advanced integrated circuit (IC) designs. While machine learning approaches have shown …

Faster region-based hotspot detection

R Chen, W Zhong, H Yang, H Geng, X Zeng… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
As the circuit feature size continuously shrinks down, hotspot detection has become a more
challenging problem in modern DFM flows. Developed deep learning techniques have …

Hotspot detection via attention-based deep layout metric learning

H Geng, H Yang, L Zhang, J Miao, F Yang… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
With the aggressive and amazing scaling of the feature size of semiconductors, hotspot
detection has become a crucial and challenging problem in the generation of optimized …

AI/ML algorithms and applications in VLSI design and technology

D Amuru, A Zahra, HV Vudumula, PK Cherupally… - Integration, 2023 - Elsevier
An evident challenge ahead for the integrated circuit (IC) industry is the investigation and
development of methods to reduce the design complexity ensuing from growing process …

Machine learning-based hotspot detection: Fallacies, pitfalls and marching orders

GR Reddy, K Madkour, Y Makris - 2019 IEEE/ACM International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extensive technology scaling has not only increased the complexity of Integrated Circuit (IC)
fabrication but also multiplied the challenges in the Design For Manufacturability (DFM) …

A survey on machine and deep learning in semiconductor industry: methods, opportunities, and challenges

AC Huang, SH Meng, TJ Huang - Cluster Computing, 2023 - Springer
The technology of big data analysis and artificial intelligence deep learning has been
actively cross-combined with various fields to increase the effect of its original low single …

Adversarial perturbation attacks on ML-based CAD: A case study on CNN-based lithographic hotspot detection

K Liu, H Yang, Y Ma, B Tan, B Yu, EFY Young… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
There is substantial interest in the use of machine learning (ML)-based techniques
throughout the electronic computer-aided design (CAD) flow, particularly those based on …

Poisoning the (data) well in ML-based CAD: A case study of hiding lithographic hotspots

K Liu, B Tan, R Karri, S Garg - … & Test in Europe Conference & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning (ML) provides state-of-the-art performance in many parts of computer-
aided design (CAD) flows. However, deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to …