arXiv:2607. 19767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A rich and recognizable component library is the cornerstone of printed circuit board (PCB) design and generation.
A rich and recognizable component library is the cornerstone of printed circuit board (PCB) design and generation. Traditionally, engineers manually create symbols and footprints and design PCB schematics, which is time-consuming and error-prone.
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: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.
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:2602.11678v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable progress in visual understanding, yet they suffer from a critical limitation: struct...
arXiv:2606. 17074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used for applications in the hardware and software domains.
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.
arXiv:2606. 01188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Translating natural-language hardware requirements into correct printed circuit board (PCB) schematics remains difficult in embedded, IoT, and wearable development.
arXiv:2602.16715v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We explore the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Graph-based RAG (GraphRAG) for generating Desig...
VisCAD is a foundation model suite that tackles AI-assisted computer-aided design for industrial products, covering both part-level and assembly-level generation. Its core component, VisCAD‑M1, is a 27B model trained for part-level design generation and outperforms existing models on PubCADBench and RealCADBench, achieving a part-level score of 0.5540 and reaching 0.5797 when used as a test-time verifier. VisCAD also offers a domain-specific harness that improves complex assembly generation compared to general-purpose harnesses, showing quantitative and qualitative advantages.
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%.
arXiv:2503.18460v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modelica is a widely adopted language for simulating complex physical systems, yet effective model creation and optimization require substant...