{"title":"Reinforcement Learning or Simulated Annealing for Analog Placement? A Study based on Bounded-Sliceline Grids","authors":"M. Lin, Chou-Chen Lee, Yi-Chao Hsieh","doi":"10.1145/3626184.3635281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3626184.3635281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262167,"journal":{"name":"ACM International Symposium on Physical Design","volume":"59 5","pages":"143-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140394675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering the Future of IC Design with AI","authors":"Ruchir Puri","doi":"10.1145/3626184.3639691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3626184.3639691","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262167,"journal":{"name":"ACM International Symposium on Physical Design","volume":"4 2","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140395106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chia-Tung Ho, Ajay Chandna, David Guan, Alvin Ho, Minsoo Kim, Yaguang Li, Haoxing Ren
{"title":"Novel Transformer Model Based Clustering Method for Standard Cell Design Automation","authors":"Chia-Tung Ho, Ajay Chandna, David Guan, Alvin Ho, Minsoo Kim, Yaguang Li, Haoxing Ren","doi":"10.1145/3626184.3633314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3626184.3633314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262167,"journal":{"name":"ACM International Symposium on Physical Design","volume":"29 S92","pages":"195-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140395188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IncreMacro: Incremental Macro Placement Refinement","authors":"Yuan Pu, Tinghuan Chen, Zhuolun He, Chen Bai, Haisheng Zheng, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu","doi":"10.1145/3626184.3633321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3626184.3633321","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes IncreMacro , a novel approach for macro placement refinement in the context of integrated circuit (IC) design. The suggested approach iteratively and incrementally optimizes the placement of macros in order to enhance IC layout routability and timing performance. To achieve this, IncreMacro utilizes several methods including kd-tree-based macro diagnosis, gradient-based macro shifting and constraint-graph-based LP for macro legalization. By employing these techniques iteratively, IncreMacro meets two critical solution requirements of macro placement: (1) pushing macros to the chip boundary; and (2) preserving the original macro relative positional relationship. The proposed approach has been incorporated into DREAMPlace and AutoDMP , and is evaluated on several RISC-V benchmark circuits at the 7-nm technology node. Experimental results show that, compared with the macro placement solution provided by DREAMPlace ( AutoDMP ), IncreMacro reduces routed wirelength by 6.5% (16.8%), improves the routed worst negative slack (WNS) and total negative slack (TNS) by 59.9% (99.6%) and 63.9% (99.9%), and reduces the total power consumption by 3.3% (4.9%).","PeriodicalId":262167,"journal":{"name":"ACM International Symposium on Physical Design","volume":"104 9","pages":"169-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140395688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DSO.ai - A Distributed System to Optimize Physical Design Flows","authors":"P. Verma","doi":"10.1145/3626184.3639780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3626184.3639780","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262167,"journal":{"name":"ACM International Symposium on Physical Design","volume":"60 2","pages":"115-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140394672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction of 3D IC Thermal Analysis Flow","authors":"Alex Hung","doi":"10.1145/3626184.3635283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3626184.3635283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262167,"journal":{"name":"ACM International Symposium on Physical Design","volume":"81 4","pages":"213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140395473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solvers, Engines, Tools and Flows: The Next Wave for AI/ML in Physical Design","authors":"Andrew B. Kahng","doi":"10.1145/3626184.3635277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3626184.3635277","url":null,"abstract":"It has been six years since an ISPD-2018 invited talk on “Machine Learning Applications in Physical Design” [25]. Since then, despite considerable activity across both academia and industry, many R&D targets remain open. At the same time, there is now clearer understanding of where AI/ML can and cannot (yet) move the needle in physical design, as well as some of the difficult blockers and technical challenges that lie ahead. Some futures for AI/ML-boosted physical design are visible across solvers, engines, tools and flows – and in contexts that span generative AI, the modeling of “magic” handoffs at flow interstices, academic research infrastructure, and the culture of benchmarking and open-source EDA.","PeriodicalId":262167,"journal":{"name":"ACM International Symposium on Physical Design","volume":"96 5","pages":"117-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140395494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scheduling and Physical Design","authors":"Jason Cong","doi":"10.1145/3626184.3635290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3626184.3635290","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":262167,"journal":{"name":"ACM International Symposium on Physical Design","volume":"28 4","pages":"219-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140395627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}