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FABO: Agent-Guided Discovery of Joint Breakpoint Optimization for Timing-Driven Routing Trees
Shang Liu, Wenji Fang, Jing Wang +3
The topology of a routing tree determines how a multi-pin net branches and shares physical wire, directly affecting wirelength, congestion, capacitance, and delay. We study a centr…
ComPart: Community-Guided Post-Coarsening for High-Quality Hypergraph Partitioning
Yugao Zhu, Zhicheng Guo, Yuchao Wu +3
Hypergraph partitioning is a critical step in the design of complex embedded systems, essential for optimizing task mapping on heterogeneous MPSoCs and enabling multi-FPGA prototyp…
IMPart: Integration of Memetic Operations into Multi-Level Framework for Large-k-Way Hypergraph Partitioning
Yugao Zhu, Zhicheng Guo, Shang Liu +3
The problem of k-way hypergraph partitioning is fundamental with significant applications in various fields, including VLSI design and scientific computing. State-of-the-art hyperg…
AssertLLM2: A Comprehensive LLM Benchmark for Assertion Generation from Design Specifications
Yuchao Wu, Wenji Fang, Jing Wang +3
Assertion-based verification (ABV) is a cornerstone of modern hardware design, yet manually translating design intent into formal SystemVerilog Assertions (SVAs) remains labor-inte…
ATLAS: A Self-Supervised and Cross-Stage Netlist Power Model for Fine-Grained Time-Based Layout Power Analysis
Wenkai Li, Yao Lu, Wenji Fang +3
Accurate power prediction in VLSI design is crucial for effective power optimization, especially as designs get transformed from gate-level netlist to layout stages. However, tradi…
CircuitFusion: Multimodal Circuit Representation Learning for Agile Chip Design
Wenji Fang, Shang Liu, Jing Wang +1
The rapid advancements of AI rely on the support of ICs. However, the growing complexity of digital ICs makes the traditional IC design process costly and time-consuming. In recent…