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: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.
By Mohammed Ayman Habib, Rylan Hart, Morteza Fayazi
arXiv:2607. 13416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating analog circuit topology design is essential to reduce the extensive manual effort required to meet increasingly diverse and customized application demands.
By Guanglei Zhou, Chen-Chia Chang, Yikang Shen, Jonathan Ku, Isaac Jacobson, Jingyu Pan, Yiran Chen, Xin Zhang
arXiv:2606. 15052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional design of analog circuits heavily relies on manual interventions across topology, sizing, and layout, with prior automation addressing stages in isolation.
By Haoyi Zhang, Weijian Fan, Xiaohan Gao, Bingyang Liu, Runsheng Wang, Yibo Lin
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
arXiv:2606. 26758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-performance GPU kernels are critical for reducing the exponentially growing computational costs of large language models (LLMs), but their development heavily relies on manual tuning by domain experts.
By Yaochen Han, Ke Fan, Hongxu Jiang, Wanqi Xu, Weiyu Xie, Runhua Zhang, Chenhui Zhu, Yixiang Zhang
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:2510. 23472v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chip placement is a vital stage in modern chip design, and black-box optimization (BBO) has been applied to it for decades.
By Ke Xue, Ruo-Tong Chen, Rong-Xi Tan, Xi Lin, Yunqi Shi, Siyuan Xu, Mingxuan Yuan, Chao Qian
arXiv:2606. 07463v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-layout design space exploration (DSE) for high-speed signal integrity (SI) analysis is often limited by the computational cost of simulations and iterative optimization algorithms within modern electronic design automation (EDA) workflows.
By Julian With\"oft, Werner John, Emre Ecik, Ralf Br\"uning, J\"urgen G\"otze
Macro placement is a fundamental step in modern chip physical design, playing a crucial role in determining the solution quality of high-dimensional combinatorial optimization problems. Despite recent advancements in machine learning for spatial coordinate determination, the temporal dimension of placement sequencing remains largely governed by static heuristics.
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:2606. 08904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Macro placement is a fundamental step in modern chip physical design, playing a crucial role in determining the solution quality of high-dimensional combinatorial optimization problems.
By Shibing Mo, Jing Liu, Jianchu Xu, Ruilin Wu