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.
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.
By Zhen Huang, Yuhao Gao, Yuzhi Liu, Daian Cheng, Chengyuan Shao, Yucheng Chen, Yongjian Jia, Futing Zhang, Yichen Shi, Wenhao Wang, Zuyan He, Yangbo Wei, Zhanfei Chen, Jinlong Yan, Yu Zhang, Haoying Wu, Ting-Jung Lin, Lei He
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: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.
By Senol Gulgonul
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: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...
By Pasindu Dodampegama, Praveen Wijesinghe, Naveen Basnayake, Keshawa Jayasundara, Tharindu Bandaragoda