Fast and efficient constraint evaluation of analog layout using machine learning models

T Dhar, J Poojary, Y Li, K Kunal… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 26th Asia and South Pacific design automation conference, 2021dl.acm.org
Placement algorithms for analog circuits explore numerous layout configurations in their
iterative search. To steer these engines towards layouts that meet the electrical constraints
on the design, this work develops a fast feasibility predictor to guide the layout engine. The
flow first discerns rough bounds on layout parasitics and prunes the feature space. Next, a
Latin hypercube sampling technique is used to sample the reduced search space, and the
labeled samples are classified by a linear support vector machine (SVM). If necessary, a …
Placement algorithms for analog circuits explore numerous layout configurations in their iterative search. To steer these engines towards layouts that meet the electrical constraints on the design, this work develops a fast feasibility predictor to guide the layout engine. The flow first discerns rough bounds on layout parasitics and prunes the feature space. Next, a Latin hypercube sampling technique is used to sample the reduced search space, and the labeled samples are classified by a linear support vector machine (SVM). If necessary, a denser sample set is used for the SVM, or if the constraints are found to be nonlinear, a multilayer perceptron (MLP) is employed. The resulting machine learning model demonstrated to rapidly evaluate candidate placements in a placer, and is used to build layouts for several analog blocks.
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