4 papers
From Tool Invocation to Source-Mechanism Exploration: Protected White-Box DSE for Open-Source EDA
Zhiyu Zheng, Yiming Du, Ziyi Wang +1
Open-source EDA tools allow design-space exploration (DSE) to move beyond public knobs and into bounded source-level mechanisms inside staged optimizers. We present ReviewDSE, a pr…
SmellBench: Towards Fine-Grained Evaluation of Code Agents on Refactoring Tasks
Fake Lin, Binbin Hu, Xi Zhu +6
Code Agents have achieved remarkable advances in recent years, exhibiting strong capabilities across a wide range of software engineering tasks. However, their misuse often produce…
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…
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…