Machine learning techniques in analog/RF integrated circuit design, synthesis, layout, and test

E Afacan, N Lourenço, R Martins, G Dündar - Integration, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid developments in semiconductor technology have substantially increased the
computational capability of computers. As a result of this and recent developments in theory …

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 …

GANA: Graph convolutional network based automated netlist annotation for analog circuits

K Kunal, T Dhar, M Madhusudan… - … , Automation & Test …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated subcircuit identification and annotation enables the creation of hierarchical
representations of analog netlists, and can facilitate a variety of design automation tasks …

MAGICAL: Toward fully automated analog IC layout leveraging human and machine intelligence

B Xu, K Zhu, M Liu, Y Lin, S Li, X Tang… - 2019 IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite tremendous advancement of digital IC design automation tools over the last few
decades, analog IC layout is still heavily manual which is very tedious and error-prone. This …

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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MAGICAL: An open-source fully automated analog IC layout system from netlist to GDSII

H Chen, M Liu, B Xu, K Zhu, X Tang, S Li… - IEEE Design & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
MAGICAL: An Open-Source Fully Automated Analog IC Layout System from Netlist to GDSII
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A general approach for identifying hierarchical symmetry constraints for analog circuit layout

K Kunal, J Poojary, T Dhar, M Madhusudan… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Analog layout synthesis requires some elements in the circuit netlist to be matched and
placed symmetrically. However, the set of symmetries is very circuit-specific and a versatile …

Fast surrogate-assisted constrained multiobjective optimization for analog circuit sizing via self-adaptive incremental learning

S Yin, R Wang, J Zhang, X Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose an efficient surrogate-assisted constrained multiobjective
evolutionary algorithm for analog circuit sizing via self-adaptive incremental learning. The …

LAYGO: A template-and-grid-based layout generation engine for advanced CMOS technologies

J Han, W Bae, E Chang, Z Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
LAYout with Gridded Objects (LAYGO), a Python-based layout-generation engine for
enhancing the design productivity of custom circuit layouts in advanced CMOS processes, is …

Opportunities and challenges of graph neural networks in electrical engineering

E Chien, M Li, A Aportela, K Ding, S Jia… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of deep learning algorithms that learn from
graphs, networks and relational data. They have found applications throughout the sciences …