Exploring a machine learning approach to performance driven analog IC placement

Yaguang Li; Yishuang Lin; Meghna Madhusudan; Arvind Sharma; Wenbin Xu; Sachin Sapatnekar; Ramesh Harjani; Jiang Hu

doi:10.1109/ISVLSI49217.2020.00015

Exploring a machine learning approach to performance driven analog IC placement

Yaguang Li, Yishuang Lin, Meghna Madhusudan, Arvind Sharma, Wenbin Xu, Sachin Sapatnekar, Ramesh Harjani, Jiang Hu

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Analog IC layout is usually a time-consuming manual design process. Although automated analog IC layout has been studied for decades, most of the previous works are focused on geometric constraints. As a result, there is often a performance gap compared to manual designs, which prevents the automated tools from wide applications. The recent progress on machine learning technology offers an opportunity for solving this problem. In this work, several machine learning techniques are investigated for analog IC performance prediction, which is further applied for performance driven placement. Simulation results from several amplifier designs indicate that the proposed approach can achieve performance similar to manual layout but is orders of magnitude faster.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2020
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	24-29
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728157757
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI49217.2020.00015
State	Published - Jul 2020
Event	19th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2020 - Limassol, Cyprus Duration: Jul 6 2020 → Jul 8 2020

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Name	Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI
Volume	2020-July
ISSN (Print)	2159-3469
ISSN (Electronic)	2159-3477

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Conference	19th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2020
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Limassol
Period	7/6/20 → 7/8/20

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Analog IC
Machine Learning
Placement

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Li, Y., Lin, Y., Madhusudan, M., Sharma, A., Xu, W., Sapatnekar, S., Harjani, R., & Hu, J. (2020). Exploring a machine learning approach to performance driven analog IC placement. In Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2020 (pp. 24-29). Article 9154987 (Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI; Vol. 2020-July). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI49217.2020.00015

Exploring a machine learning approach to performance driven analog IC placement. / Li, Yaguang; Lin, Yishuang; Madhusudan, Meghna et al.
Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2020. IEEE Computer Society, 2020. p. 24-29 9154987 (Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI; Vol. 2020-July).

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Li, Y, Lin, Y, Madhusudan, M, Sharma, A, Xu, W, Sapatnekar, S , Harjani, R & Hu, J 2020, Exploring a machine learning approach to performance driven analog IC placement. in Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2020., 9154987, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI, vol. 2020-July, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 24-29, 19th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2020, Limassol, Cyprus, 7/6/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI49217.2020.00015

Li Y, Lin Y, Madhusudan M, Sharma A, Xu W, Sapatnekar S et al. Exploring a machine learning approach to performance driven analog IC placement. In Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2020. IEEE Computer Society. 2020. p. 24-29. 9154987. (Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI). doi: 10.1109/ISVLSI49217.2020.00015

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