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20232025
most citediEDA: An Open-Source Intelligent Physical Implementation Toolkit and Library

5 citations · 5 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CC2025

Bounded Dynamic Level Maintenance for Efficient Logic Optimization

Junfeng Liu, Qinghua Zhao, Liwei Ni +5

Logic optimization constitutes a critical phase within the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) flow, essential for achieving desired circuit power, performance, and area (PPA) targe…

cs.AR2025

BoolSkeleton: Boolean Network Skeletonization via Homogeneous Pattern Reduction

Liwei Ni, Jiaxi Zhang, Shenggen Zheng +5

Boolean equivalence allows Boolean networks with identical functionality to exhibit diverse graph structures. This gives more room for exploration in logic optimization, while also…

cs.AI2024

OpenLS-DGF: An Adaptive Open-Source Dataset Generation Framework for Machine Learning Tasks in Logic Synthesis

Liwei Ni, Rui Wang, Miao Liu +10

This paper introduces OpenLS-DGF, an adaptive logic synthesis dataset generation framework, to enhance machine learning~(ML) applications within the logic synthesis process. Previo…

cs.LG2024

Boolean-aware Boolean Circuit Classification: A Comprehensive Study on Graph Neural Network

Liwei Ni, Xinquan Li, Biwei Xie +1

Boolean circuit is a computational graph that consists of the dynamic directed graph structure and static functionality. The commonly used logic optimization and Boolean matching-b…

cs.DC2024

Parallel AIG Refactoring via Conflict Breaking

Ye Cai, Zonglin Yang, Liwei Ni +3

Algorithm parallelization to leverage multi-core platforms for improving the efficiency of Electronic Design Automation~(EDA) tools plays a significant role in enhancing the scalab…

cs.DC2024

Enhancing ASIC Technology Mapping via Parallel Supergate Computing

Ye Cai, Zonglin Yang, Liwei Ni +2

With the development of large-scale integrated circuits, electronic design automation~(EDA) tools are increasingly emphasizing efficiency, with parallel algorithms becoming a trend…

cs.AR2023

MEC: An Open-source Fine-grained Mapping Equivalence Checking Tool for FPGA

Liwei Ni, Zonglin Yang, Jiaxi Zhang +6

Technology mapping is an essential step in EDA flow. However, the function of the circuit may be changed after technology mapping, and equivalence checking (EC) based verification…

cs.AI2023

Adaptive Reconvergence-driven AIG Rewriting via Strategy Learning

Liwei Ni, Zonglin Yang, Jiaxi Zhang +4

Rewriting is a common procedure in logic synthesis aimed at improving the performance, power, and area (PPA) of circuits. The traditional reconvergence-driven And-Inverter Graph (A…

cs.LG2023

Fast Exact NPN Classification with Influence-aided Canonical Form

Yonghe Zhang, Liwei Ni, Jiaxi Zhang +3

NPN classification has many applications in the synthesis and verification of digital circuits. The canonical-form-based method is the most common approach, designing a canonical f…

cs.AR2023★ 5 cited

iEDA: An Open-Source Intelligent Physical Implementation Toolkit and Library

Xingquan Li, Simin Tao, Zengrong Huang +53

Open-source EDA shows promising potential in unleashing EDA innovation and lowering the cost of chip design. This paper presents an open-source EDA project, iEDA, aiming for buildi…

cs.CC2023

Rethinking NPN Classification from Face and Point Characteristics of Boolean Functions

Jiaxi Zhang, Shenggen Zheng, Liwei Ni +2

NPN classification is an essential problem in the design and verification of digital circuits. Most existing works explored variable symmetries and cofactor signatures to develop t…