3 papers
cs.AI2026
MAGE: Human-Like Macro Placement via Agentic Multimodal Reasoning
Andrew B. Kahng, Sayak Kundu, Bodhisatta Pramanik
Macro placement still requires substantial manual refinement in industrial physical design flows. We present MAGE (Macro Placement Agentic Engine), a multimodal multi-agent framewo…
cs.AR2026
Escaping Flatland: A Placement Flow for Enabling 3D FPGAs
Cong Hao, Andrew B. Kahng, Bodhisatta Pramanik +1
3D field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) promise higher performance through vertical integration. However, existing placement tools, largely inherited from 2D frameworks, fail to…
cs.AR2026
ChipletPart: Cost-Aware Partitioning for 2.5D Systems
Alexander Graening, Puneet Gupta, Andrew B. Kahng +2
Industry adoption of chiplets has been growing as chiplets are a cost-effective option for making large, high-performance systems. Consequently, partitioning large systems into chi…