Challenges and opportunities toward fully automated analog layout design

H Chen, M Liu, X Tang, K Zhu, N Sun… - Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Realizing the layouts of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuits (ICs) is a complicated
task due to the high design flexibility and sensitive circuit performance. Compared with the …

ALIGN: A system for automating analog layout

T Dhar, K Kunal, Y Li, M Madhusudan… - IEEE Design & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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Copublished by the IEEE CEDA, IEEE CASS, IEEE SSCS, and TTTC IEEE Design&Test …

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 …

Universal symmetry constraint extraction for analog and mixed-signal circuits with graph neural networks

H Chen, K Zhu, M Liu, X Tang, N Sun… - 2021 58th ACM/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent research trends in analog layout synthesis aim for a fully automated netlist-to-GDSII
design flow with minimum human efforts. Due to the sensitiveness of analog circuit layouts …

Why are graph neural networks effective for eda problems?

H Ren, S Nath, Y Zhang, H Chen, M Liu - Proceedings of the 41st IEEE …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we discuss the source of effectiveness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in
EDA, particularly in the VLSI design automation domain. We argue that the effectiveness …

Parasitic-aware analog circuit sizing with graph neural networks and Bayesian optimization

M Liu, WJ Turner, GF Kokai, B Khailany… - … , Automation & Test …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Layout parasitics significantly impact the performance of analog integrated circuits, leading
to discrepancies between schematic and post-layout performance and requiring several …

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 …

Automating analog constraint extraction: From heuristics to learning

K Zhu, H Chen, M Liu, DZ Pan - 2022 27th Asia and South …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analog layout synthesis has recently received much attention to mitigate the increasing cost
of manual layout efforts. To achieve the desired performance and design specifications …

[HTML][HTML] Scalable and order invariant analog integrated circuit placement with attention-based graph-to-sequence deep models

APL de Gusmao, NCG Horta, NCC Lourenco… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
The design of integrated circuits (ICs) in the analog spectrum is intricate due to the signals'
continuous nature. Additionally, it is strongly affected by the physical implementation of their …

A survey and perspective on artificial intelligence for security-aware electronic design automation

D Koblah, R Acharya, D Capecci… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques have been increasingly
used in several fields to improve performance and the level of automation. In recent years …