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most citedLiDAR 2.0: Hierarchical Curvy Waveguide Detailed Routing for Large-Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits

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physics.optics2026

End-to-End Physical Design Automation Flow for Yield-Optimized Inverse-Designed Large-Scale Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits

Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Haoxing Ren +2

As AI systems scale to multi-chiplet and wafer-level architectures, the demand for ultra-high bandwidth and system scalability has outpaced the capabilities of electrical interconn…

cs.AR2026

Autonomous Evolution of EDA Tools: Multi-Agent Self-Evolved ABC

Cunxi Yu, Haoxing Ren

This paper introduces the first \emph{self-evolving} logic synthesis framework, which leverages Large Language Model (LLM) agents to autonomously improve the source code of \textsc…

cs.LG2026

TOPCELL: Topology Optimization of Standard Cell via LLMs

Zhan Song, Yu-Tung Liu, Chen Chen +6

Transistor topology optimization is a critical step in standard cell design, directly dictating diffusion sharing efficiency and downstream routability. However, identifying optima…

physics.optics2025

Photonics-Aware Planning-Guided Automated Electrical Routing for Large-Scale Active Photonic Integrated Circuits

Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Nicholas Gangi +6

The rising demand for AI training and inference, as well as scientific computing, combined with stringent latency and energy budgets, is driving the adoption of integrated photonic…

cs.ET2025★ 4 cited

LiDAR 2.0: Hierarchical Curvy Waveguide Detailed Routing for Large-Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits

Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Ziang Ying +6

Driven by innovations in photonic computing and interconnects, photonic integrated circuit (PIC) designs advance and grow in complexity. Traditional manual physical design processe…

cs.AI2025

Deep Generative Prior for First Order Inverse Optimization

Haoyu Yang, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Haoxing Ren

Inverse design optimization aims to infer system parameters from observed solutions, posing critical challenges across domains such as semiconductor manufacturing, structural engin…

cs.ET2025

Apollo: Automated Routing-Informed Placement for Large-Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits

Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Nicholas Gangi +3

As technology advances, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are rapidly scaling in size and complexity, with modern designs integrating thousands of components. However, the analog…

physics.optics2024

BOSON: Understanding and Enabling Physically-Robust Photonic Inverse Design with Adaptive Variation-Aware Subspace Optimization

Pingchuan Ma, Zhengqi Gao, Amir Begovic +6

Nanophotonic device design aims to optimize photonic structures to meet specific requirements across various applications. Inverse design has unlocked non-intuitive, high-dimension…

cs.CV2024

GPU-Accelerated Inverse Lithography Towards High Quality Curvy Mask Generation

Haoyu Yang, Haoxing Ren

Inverse Lithography Technology (ILT) has emerged as a promising solution for photo mask design and optimization. Relying on multi-beam mask writers, ILT enables the creation of fre…

cs.AI2024

Differentiable Edge-based OPC

Guojin Chen, Haoyu Yang, Haoxing Ren +2

Optical proximity correction (OPC) is crucial for pushing the boundaries of semiconductor manufacturing and enabling the continued scaling of integrated circuits. While pixel-based…

cs.AI2024

Intelligent OPC Engineer Assistant for Semiconductor Manufacturing

Guojin Chen, Haoyu Yang, Bei Yu +1

Advancements in chip design and manufacturing have enabled the processing of complex tasks such as deep learning and natural language processing, paving the way for the development…