A comprehensive survey on electronic design automation and graph neural networks: Theory and applications

D Sánchez, L Servadei, GN Kiprit, R Wille… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Driven by Moore's law, the chip design complexity is steadily increasing. Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) has been able to cope with the challenging very large-scale integration …

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 …

Hardware trojan detection using graph neural networks

R Yasaei, L Chen, SY Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The globalization of the Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain has moved most of the design,
fabrication, and testing process from a single trusted entity to various untrusted third party …

Graph neural networks: A powerful and versatile tool for advancing design, reliability, and security of ICs

L Alrahis, J Knechtel, O Sinanoglu - Proceedings of the 28th Asia and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have pushed the state-of-the-art (SOTA) for performance in
learning and predicting on large-scale data present in social networks, biology, etc. Since …

GNN4REL: Graph neural networks for predicting circuit reliability degradation

L Alrahis, J Knechtel, F Klemme… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Process variations and device aging impose profound challenges for circuit designers.
Without a precise understanding of the impact of variations on the delay of circuit paths …

Gamora: Graph learning based symbolic reasoning for large-scale boolean networks

N Wu, Y Li, C Hao, S Dai, C Yu… - 2023 60th ACM/IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reasoning high-level abstractions from bit-blasted Boolean networks (BNs) such as gate-
level netlists can significantly benefit functional verification, logic minimization, datapath …

Embracing graph neural networks for hardware security

L Alrahis, S Patnaik, M Shafique… - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing attention due to their superior
performance in deep learning on graph-structured data. GNNs have succeeded across …

Titan: Security analysis of large-scale hardware obfuscation using graph neural networks

L Mankali, L Alrahis, S Patnaik… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware obfuscation is a prominent design-for-trust solution that thwarts intellectual
property (IP) piracy and reverse-engineering of integrated circuits (ICs). Researchers have …

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 …

: Backdoor Attack on Graph Neural Networks-Based Hardware Security Systems

L Alrahis, S Patnaik, MA Hanif… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great success in detecting intellectual property
(IP) piracy and hardware Trojans (HTs). However, the machine learning community has …