Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have revolutionized Electronic Design Automation (EDA), particularly through Large Language Models (LLMs) for circuit design tasks. However, their application to analog and mixed-signal domains remains limited by the lack of machine-readable representations of existing circuit design knowledge.
arXiv:2607. 01609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have revolutionized Electronic Design Automation (EDA), particularly through Large Language Models (LLMs) for circuit design tasks.
PCBnet is a new large‑scale dataset of printed circuit board (PCB) schematics that includes over 300 real‑world designs, more than 50,000 component instances, 150,000 wires, 100,000 text regions, and 400,000 characters, each paired with a SPICE netlist. The authors also introduce an automated pipeline that converts schematic images into netlists, achieving 94.54% component detection mAP, 98.57% text recognition accuracy, and 84.47% end‑to‑end connectivity accuracy. This resource aims to serve as a benchmark and data foundation for future AI‑driven PCB design automation.
arXiv:2504. 03711v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven electronic design automation (EDA) techniques have been extensively explored for VLSI circuit design applications.
arXiv:2607. 03835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Converting a SPICE netlist into a human-readable schematic is a longstanding problem in electronic design automation: simulators and machine-learning pipelines readily produce netlists, but designers reason about circuits through diagrams.
arXiv:2609.36752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Circuit design is a complex and iterative process that requires expertise in electronic engineering. It involves selecting components while meeting per...
arXiv:2603. 09161v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning effective netlist representations is fundamentally constrained by the scarcity of labeled datasets, as real designs are protected by Intellectual Property (IP) and costly to annotate.
The paper introduces VLM-CAD, a workflow that uses Vision Language Models (VLMs) for analog circuit sizing while mitigating spatial blindness and logical hallucinations. It incorporates a neuro‑symbolic parsing module, Image2Net, to convert schematics into topological graphs and JSON, and an Explainable Trust Region Bayesian Optimization method, ExTuRBO, to guide design decisions with sensitivity evidence. Experiments on 12 sizing tasks across six circuits and four technology platforms show a Strict Pass@1 of 23.3% and a Relaxed Pass@1 of 91.7%.
The paper introduces an enhanced end‑to‑end circuit analysis framework built on Gemini 2.5 Pro, targeting engineering education. It addresses two key failure modes—circuit‑recognition hallucinations and reasoning‑process hallucinations—by adding a YOLO detector for source polarity re‑identification and an ngspice verification loop for iterative refinement. The resulting pipeline achieves 97.59 % accuracy on 83 undergraduate problems, markedly outperforming the baseline Gemini model and demonstrating significant gains across varied diagram styles and textbooks.
arXiv:2609.15668v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Through pre-training on extensive text and image datasets, current multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on general ta...
arXiv:2607. 11338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Symbolic expressions can effectively characterize and predict circuit behavior, but deriving them directly from circuit schematics is challenging.
arXiv:2608. 13472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Analog circuit design is a time-consuming, iterative process in a nonlinear and high-dimensional design space that relies heavily on expert intuition.
THEIA is a multimodal dataset that pairs thousands of analog circuit layout images with question‑answer conversations, and it introduces a benchmark using a fine‑tuned vision‑language model to analyze GDSII files. The dataset and benchmark enable designers to interact with and query physical layouts as intuitive, meaningful entities. Experiments on five realistic tasks show the fine‑tuned model outperforms general‑purpose vision‑language models by up to 73%, revealing a significant gap between general multimodal reasoning and domain‑specific layout understanding.