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20242026
most citedAn Updated Assessment of Reinforcement Learning for Macro Placement

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8 papers

cs.AR2026

From Tool Invocation to Source-Mechanism Exploration: Protected White-Box DSE for Open-Source EDA

Zhiyu Zheng, Yiming Du, Ziyi Wang +1

The paper introduces ReviewDSE, a protected white-box design-space exploration framework that leverages source-level mechanisms in open-source EDA tools to improve placement qualit…

cs.AI2026

ORFS-agent: Tool-Using Agents for Chip Design Optimization

Amur Ghose, Andrew B. Kahng, Sayak Kundu +1

Machine learning has been widely used to optimize complex engineering workflows across numerous domains. In integrated circuit design, modern flows (e.g., register-transfer level t…

cs.LG20262 cited

An Updated Assessment of Reinforcement Learning for Macro Placement

Chung-Kuan Cheng, Andrew B. Kahng, Sayak Kundu +2

We provide an improved assessment of Google Brain's deep reinforcement learning approach to macro placement and its updated Circuit Training (CT) implementation in GitHub. A strong…

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…

eess.SY2026

Invited: Toward Sustainable and Transparent Benchmarking for Academic Physical Design Research

Liwen Jiang, Andrew B. Kahng, Zhiang Wang +1

This paper presents RosettaStone 2.0, an open benchmark translation and evaluation framework built on OpenROAD-Research. RosettaStone 2.0 provides complete RTL-to-GDS reference flo…

eess.SP2025

Bridging the Initialization Gap: A Co-Optimization Framework for Mixed-Size Global Placement

Yuhao Ren, Yiting Liu, Yanfei Zhou +4

Global placement is a critical step with high computational complexity in VLSI physical design. Modern analytical placers formulate the placement problem as a nonlinear optimizatio…