2 papers
cs.CR2026
Kerckhoffs-Compliant Watermarking for Physical Design IP Protection: From Placement to Routing
Andrew B. Kahng, Yiting Liu
Physical design (PD) intellectual property (IP) is a valuable artifact of modern VLSI implementation. It includes optimized cell placement, clock distribution, and routing decision…
cs.LG2025
Recursive Learning-Based Virtual Buffering for Analytical Global Placement
Andrew B. Kahng, Yiting Liu, Zhiang Wang
Due to the skewed scaling of interconnect versus cell delay in modern technology nodes, placement with buffer porosity (i.e., cell density) awareness is essential for timing closur…