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. 12687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) is a sample-efficient framework for analog circuit topology search, where evaluating each candidate topology can require costly simulation.
By Fin Amin, Sounak Dutta, Paul D. Franzon
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: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: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:2607. 14008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we introduce Lighthouse RL, a sample-efficient reinforcement learning (RL) approach for analog circuit sizing.
By Mustafa Emre G\"ursoy, Stefan Uhlich, Ryoga Matsuo, Ya\u{g}{\i}z Gen\c{c}er, Arun Venkitaraman, Chia-Yu Hsieh, Andrea Bonetti, Eisaku Ohbuchi, Lorenzo Servadei