Machine Learning for Analog Layout

Steven M. Burns, Hao Chen, Tonmoy Dhar, Ramesh Harjani, Jiang Hu, Nibedita Karmokar, Kishor Kunal, Yaguang Li, Yishuang Lin, Mingjie Liu, Meghna Madhusudan, Parijat Mukherjee, David Z. Pan, Jitesh Poojary, Ramprasath S, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Arvind K Sharma, Wenbin Xu, Soner Yaldiz, Keren Zhu

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Abstract

The performance of analog circuits is critically dependent on layout parasitics, but layout has traditionally been a manual and time-consuming task. Recent advances in ML have enabled new capabilities to facilitate fast automated placement and routing. This chapter presents an overview of these techniques, including geometric constraint generation and constrained placement and routing. A variety of ML techniques are used in various steps of analog placement and routing, including graph neural networks, random forest methods, support vector machines, graph attention networks, generative adversarial networks, reinforcement learning, and variational autoencoders. This chapter shows how these general ML algorithms are specifically customized to the requirements of optimized analog layout.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMachine Learning Applications in Electronic Design Automation
PublisherSpringer Singapore
Pages505-544
Number of pages40
ISBN (Electronic)9783031130748
ISBN (Print)9783031130731
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2023

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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Keywords

  • Analog layout
  • Analog routing
  • Annotation
  • Deep neural networks
  • Graph neural networks
  • Layout performance prediction
  • Symmetry

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