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 …

Lithobench: Benchmarking ai computational lithography for semiconductor manufacturing

S Zheng, H Yang, B Zhu, B Yu… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Computational lithography provides algorithmic and mathematical support for resolution
enhancement in optical lithography, which is the critical step in semiconductor …

L2o-ilt: Learning to optimize inverse lithography techniques

B Zhu, S Zheng, Z Yu, G Chen, Y Ma… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inverse lithography technique (ILT) is one of the most widely used resolution enhancement
techniques (RETs) to compensate for the diffraction effect in the lithography process …

Hotspot detection via attention-based deep layout metric learning

H Geng, H Yang, L Zhang, J Miao, F Yang… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
With the aggressive and amazing scaling of the feature size of semiconductors, hotspot
detection has become a crucial and challenging problem in the generation of optimized …

AdaOPC: A self-adaptive mask optimization framework for real design patterns

W Zhao, X Yao, Z Yu, G Chen, Y Ma, B Yu… - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Optical proximity correction (OPC) is a widely-used resolution enhancement technique
(RET) for printability optimization. Recently, rigorous numerical optimization and fast …

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 …

Efficient ilt via multi-level lithography simulation

S Sun, F Yang, B Yu, L Shang… - 2023 60th ACM/IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inverse Lithography Technology (ILT) is a widely investigated method to improve the yield of
chip manufacturing. However, high computational complexity and difficulty in fabricating …

A2-ILT: GPU accelerated ILT with spatial attention mechanism

Q Wang, B Jiang, MDF Wong, EFY Young - … of the 59th ACM/IEEE Design …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Inverse lithography technology (ILT) is one of the promising resolution enhancement
techniques (RETs) in modern design-for-manufacturing closure, however, it suffers from …

AnalogCoder: Analog Circuit Design via Training-Free Code Generation

Y Lai, S Lee, G Chen, S Poddar, M Hu, DZ Pan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Analog circuit design is a significant task in modern chip technology, focusing on the
selection of component types, connectivity, and parameters to ensure proper circuit …

Ultra-fast source mask optimization via conditional discrete diffusion

G Chen, Z Wang, B Yu, DZ Pan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Source mask optimization (SMO) is vital for mitigating lithography imaging distortions
caused by shrinking critical dimensions in integrated circuit fabrication. However, the …