arXiv:2607. 14165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capability in software code generation, their application to analog Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is bottlenecked.
By Dimple Vijay Kochar, Hae-Seung Lee, Anantha P. Chandrakasan
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.
By Wenji Fang, Jing Wang, Yao Lu, Shang Liu, Yuchao Wu, Yuzhe Ma, Zhiyao Xie
arXiv:2608. 13767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Analog IC layout design remains a labor-intensive iterative process dominated by simulation-driven refinement.
By Bingyang Liu, Ziming Wei, Xiaohan Gao, David Z. Pan
arXiv:2608. 04999v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Analog circuit design automation using reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for reducing manual effort.
By Osei Brempong, Mohammed Ayman Habib, Vivan Poddar, Morteza Fayazi
arXiv:2608. 12751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Logic synthesis transforms RTL designs into gate-level netlists, where PPA results are highly sensitive to the choice of optimization commands, making synthesis tuning both high-dimensional and expensive.
By Fangzhou Liu, Peiyi Han, Jiawei Liu, Yuan Pu, Zhuolun He, Rongliang Fu, Tsung-Yi Ho, Bei Yu
arXiv:2606. 25207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) is essential for maximizing machine learning model performance, and its core challenge is sample efficiency: finding strong configurations within a limited budget.
By Taicheng Guo, Haomin Zhuang, Kehan Guo, Yujun Zhou, Nitesh V. Chawla, Olaf Wiest, Xiangliang Zhang
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.
By Siyang Cai, Cangyuan Li, Haoyu Gao, Kun Wang, Yinhe Han, Ying Wang
arXiv:2605. 06936v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly applied to the "last mile" of Electronic Design Automation (EDA): repairing residual sign-off Design Rule Check (DRC) violations and converging Power-Performance-Area (PPA) targets after tool runs.
By Pengju Liu, Nuo Xu, Jinwei Tang, Yu Cao, Caiwen Ding
arXiv:2606. 05680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the automatic synthesis (generation) of register-transfer level (RTL) code from natural language instructions, offering a promising pathway to accelerate chip design.
By Mohammad Akyash, Nowfel Mashnoor, Kimia Azar, Hadi Kamali
arXiv:2508. 10409v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper constructs a textual dataset for training large language models (LLMs) to learn analog circuit knowledge and customizes LLM training techniques.
By Zihao Chen, Ji Zhuang, Jinyi Shen, Xiaoyue Ke, Xinyi Yang, Mingjie Zhou, Zhuoyao Du, Xu Yan, Zhouyang Wu, Zhenyu Xu, Jiangli Huang, Li Shang, Xuan Zeng, Fan Yang
arXiv:2511. 22651v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimization methods have long advanced many fields, yet they struggle when faced with design problems where the search space and design parameters are difficult to define.
By Anthony Carreon, Vansh Sharma, Venkat Raman
arXiv:2603. 24714v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Analog design often slows down because even small changes to device sizes or biases require expensive simulation cycles, and high-quality solutions typically occupy only a narrow part of a very large search space.
By Sounak Dutta, Fin Amin, Sushil Panda, Jonathan Rabe, Yuejiang Wen, Paul Franzon