Review of deep learning: concepts, CNN architectures, challenges, applications, future directions

L Alzubaidi, J Zhang, AJ Humaidi, A Al-Dujaili… - Journal of big Data, 2021 - Springer
In the last few years, the deep learning (DL) computing paradigm has been deemed the
Gold Standard in the machine learning (ML) community. Moreover, it has gradually become …

Literature review: Efficient deep neural networks techniques for medical image analysis

MA Abdou - Neural Computing and Applications, 2022 - Springer
Significant evolution in deep learning took place in 2010, when software developers started
using graphical processing units for general-purpose applications. From that date, the deep …

A graph placement methodology for fast chip design

A Mirhoseini, A Goldie, M Yazgan, JW Jiang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Chip floorplanning is the engineering task of designing the physical layout of a computer
chip. Despite five decades of research 1, chip floorplanning has defied automation, requiring …

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 …

Chipformer: Transferable chip placement via offline decision transformer

Y Lai, J Liu, Z Tang, B Wang, J Hao… - … on Machine Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Placement is a critical step in modern chip design, aiming to determine the positions of
circuit modules on the chip canvas. Recent works have shown that reinforcement learning …

Maskplace: Fast chip placement via reinforced visual representation learning

Y Lai, Y Mu, P Luo - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Placement is an essential task in modern chip design, aiming at placing millions of circuit
modules on a 2D chip canvas. Unlike the human-centric solution, which requires months of …

On joint learning for solving placement and routing in chip design

R Cheng, J Yan - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
For its advantage in GPU acceleration and less dependency on human experts, machine
learning has been an emerging tool for solving the placement and routing problems, as two …

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 …

A timing engine inspired graph neural network model for pre-routing slack prediction

Z Guo, M Liu, J Gu, S Zhang, DZ Pan… - Proceedings of the 59th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Fast and accurate pre-routing timing prediction is essential for timing-driven placement since
repetitive routing and static timing analysis (STA) iterations are expensive and …

[图书][B] VLSI physical design: from graph partitioning to timing closure

AB Kahng, J Lienig, IL Markov, J Hu - 2011 - Springer
The electronic design automation (EDA) industry develops software to support engineers in
the creation of new integrated circuit (IC) designs. Due to the high complexity of modern …