no code implementations • 28 Feb 2025 • Yunqi Shi, Siyuan Xu, Shixiong Kai, Xi Lin, Ke Xue, Mingxuan Yuan, Chao Qian
Timing optimization during the global placement of integrated circuits has been a significant focus for decades, yet it remains a complex, unresolved issue.
no code implementations • 13 Jan 2025 • Saurabh Bodhe, Zhanguang Zhang, Atia Hamidizadeh, Shixiong Kai, Yingxue Zhang, Mingxuan Yuan
The framework includes a TimingParser that supports DEF, SDF and LIB files for feature extraction and graph construction, an arrival time prediction model and a fast RAT estimation module.
1 code implementation • 10 Dec 2024 • Ke Xue, Ruo-Tong Chen, Xi Lin, Yunqi Shi, Shixiong Kai, Siyuan Xu, Chao Qian
In modern chip design, placement aims at placing millions of circuit modules, which is an essential step that significantly influences power, performance, and area (PPA) metrics.
no code implementations • 3 Jul 2024 • Zhihai Wang, Zijie Geng, Zhaojie Tu, Jie Wang, Yuxi Qian, Zhexuan Xu, Ziyan Liu, Siyuan Xu, Zhentao Tang, Shixiong Kai, Mingxuan Yuan, Jianye Hao, Bin Li, Yongdong Zhang, Feng Wu
We executed six state-of-the-art AI-based chip placement algorithms on these designs and plugged the results of each single-point algorithm into the physical implementation workflow to obtain the final PPA results.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2024 • Ke Xue, Xi Lin, Yunqi Shi, Shixiong Kai, Siyuan Xu, Chao Qian
Placement is crucial in the physical design, as it greatly affects power, performance, and area metrics.
1 code implementation • 27 Feb 2024 • RuiZhe Zhong, Junjie Ye, Zhentao Tang, Shixiong Kai, Mingxuan Yuan, Jianye Hao, Junchi Yan
First, we propose global circuit training to pre-train a graph auto-encoder that learns the global graph embedding from circuit netlist.
1 code implementation • 28 Dec 2023 • RuiZhe Zhong, Xingbo Du, Shixiong Kai, Zhentao Tang, Siyuan Xu, Hui-Ling Zhen, Jianye Hao, Qiang Xu, Mingxuan Yuan, Junchi Yan
Since circuit can be represented with HDL in a textual format, it is reasonable to question whether LLMs can be leveraged in the EDA field to achieve fully automated chip design and generate circuits with improved power, performance, and area (PPA).
no code implementations • 7 Nov 2022 • Zhengbang Zhu, Shenyu Zhang, Yuzheng Zhuang, Yuecheng Liu, Minghuan Liu, Liyuan Mao, Ziqin Gong, Shixiong Kai, Qiang Gu, Bin Wang, Siyuan Cheng, Xinyu Wang, Jianye Hao, Yong Yu
High-quality traffic flow generation is the core module in building simulators for autonomous driving.