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2024

A 0.190-pJ/bit 25.2-Gb/s/wire Inverter-Based AC-Coupled Transceiver for Short-Reach Die-to-Die Interfaces in 5-nm CMOS
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Walker Turner, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John Wilson, William Dally, Tom Gray
Novel Transformer Model Based Clustering Method for Standard Cell Design Automation
Chia-Tung (Mark) Ho, Ajay Chandna, David Guan, Alvin Ho, Minsoo Kim, Yaguang Li, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
Best Paper Award
MedPart: A Multi-Level Evolutionary Differentiable Hypergraph Partitioner
Rongjian Liang, Anthony Agnesina, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
GPU/ML-Enhanced Large Scale Global Routing Contest
Rongjian Liang, Anthony Agnesina, Wen-Hao Liu, Haoxing (Mark) Ren

2023

CircuitOps: An ML Infrastructure Enabling Generative AI for VLSI Circuit Optimization
Rongjian Liang, Anthony Agnesina, Geraldo Pradipta, Vidya A. Chhabria, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
ChipNeMo: Domain-Adapted LLMs for Chip Design
Mingjie Liu, Teo Ene, Robert Kirby, Chris Cheng, Nathaniel Pinckney, Rongjian Liang, Jonah Alben, Himyanshu Anand, Sanmitra Banerjee, Ismet Bayraktaroglu, Bonita Bhaskaran, Bryan Catanzaro, Arjun Chaudhuri, Sharon Clay, Bill Dally, Laura Dang, Parikshit Deshpande, Siddhanth Dhodhi, Sameer Halepete, Eric Hill, Jiashang Hu, Sumit Jain, Brucek Khailany, George Kokai, Kishor Kunal, Xiaowei Li, Charley Lind, Hao Liu, Stuart Oberman, Sujeet Omar, Sreedhar Pratty, Jonathan Raman, Ambar Sarkar, Zhengjiang Shao, Hanfei Sun, Pratik P Suthar, Varun Tej, Walker Turner, Kaizhe Xu, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
VerilogEval: Evaluating Large Language Models for Verilog Code Generation
Mingjie Liu, Nathaniel Pinckney, Brucek Khailany, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
Late Breaking Results: Test Selection For RTL Coverage By Unsupervised Learning From Fast Functional Simulation
Rongjian Liang, Nathaniel Pinckney, Yuji Chai, Haoxing (Mark) Ren, Brucek Khailany
Efficient Transformer Inference with Statically Structured Sparse Attention
Steve Dai, Hasan Genc, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Brucek Khailany
Physics-Informed Optical Kernel Regression Using Complex-valued Neural Fields
Guojin Chen, Zehua Pei, Haoyu Yang, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, Martin Wong
A 0.190-pJ/bit 25.2-Gb/s/wire Inverter-Based AC-Coupled Transceiver for Short-Reach Die-to-Die Interfaces in 5-nm CMOS
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Walker Turner, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John Wilson, William Dally, Tom Gray
A 9.7fJ/Conv.-Step Capacitive Sensor Readout Circuit with Incremental Zoomed Time Domain Quantization
Zilong Shen, Xiyuan Tang, Zhongyi Wu, Haoyang Luo, Zongnan Wang, Mingjie Liu, Xing Zhang, Yuan Wang
A 0.297-pJ/Bit 50.4-Gb/s/Wire Inverter-Based Short-Reach Simultaneous Bi-Directional Transceiver for Die-to-Die Interface in 5-nm CMOS
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Walker Turner, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John Wilson, William Dally, Tom Gray
Reinforcement Learning Guided Detailed Routing for Custom Circuits
Hao Chen, Kai-Chieh Hsu, Walker Turner, Po-Hsuan Wei, Keren Zhu, David Z. Pan, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
DREAM-GAN: Advancing DREAMPlace towards Commercial-Quality using Generative Adversarial Learning
Yi-Chen Lu, Haoxing (Mark) Ren, Hao-Hsiang Hsiao, Sung Kyu Lim
NVCell 2: Routability-Driven Standard Cell Layout in Advanced Nodes with Lattice Graph Routability Model
Chia-Tung (Mark) Ho, Alvin Ho, Matt Fojtik, Minsoo Kim, Shang Wei, Yaguang LI, Brucek Khailany, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
AutoDMP: Automated DREAMPlace-based Macro Placement
Anthony Agnesina, Puranjay Rajvanshi, Tian Yang, Geraldo Pradipta, Austin Jiao, Ben Keller, Brucek Khailany, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
On Legalization of Die Bonding Bumps and Pads for 3D ICs
Sai Pentapati, Anthony Agnesina, Moritz Brunion, Yen-Hsiang Huang, Sung Kyu Lim
Enabling Scalable AI Computational Lithography with Physics-Inspired Models
Haoyu Yang, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
Beyond CPO: A Motivation and Approach for Bringing Optics onto the Silicon Interposer
Ben Lee, Nikola Nedovic, Trey Greer, Tom Gray
A 95.6-TOPS/W Deep Learning Inference Accelerator With Per-Vector Scaled 4-bit Quantization in 5 nm
Ben Keller, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Steve Dai, Stephen Tell, Brian Zimmer, Charbel Sakr, William Dally, Tom Gray, Brucek Khailany
BufFormer: A Generative ML Framework for Scalable Buffering
Rongjian Liang, Siddhartha Nath, Anand Rajaram, Jiang Hu, Haoxing (Mark) Ren

2022

Efficient Arithmetic Block Identification with Graph Learning and Network-flow
Ziyi Wang, Zhuolun He, Chen Bai, Haoyu Yang, Bei Yu
An Adversarial Active Sampling-based Data Augmentation Framework for Manufacturable Chip Design
Mingjie Liu, Haoyu Yang, Zongyi Li, Kumara Sastry, Saumyadip Mukhopadhyay, Selim Dogru, Anima Anandkumar, David Z. Pan, Brucek Khailany, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
LNS-Madam: Low-Precision Training in Logarithmic Number System Using Multiplicative Weight Update
Jiawei Zhao, Steve Dai, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Brian Zimmer, Mustafa Ali, Ming-Yu Liu, Brucek Khailany, William Dally, Anima Anandkumar
Why are Graph Neural Networks Effective for EDA Problems?
Haoxing (Mark) Ren, Siddhartha Nath, Yanqing Zhang, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu
TransSizer: A Novel Transformer-Based Fast Gate Sizer
Siddhartha Nath, Geraldo Pradipta, Corey Hu, Tian Yang, Brucek Khailany, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
TAG: Learning Circuit Spatial Embedding from Layouts
Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Walker Turner, George F. Kokai, Po-Hsuan Wei, David Z. Pan, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
Photonic Circuits for Accelerated Computing Systems
Ben Lee
XT-PRAGGMA: Crosstalk Pessimism Reduction Accessible by GPU Gate-level Simulations and Machine Learning
Vidya Chhabria, Ben Keller, Yanqing Zhang, Sandeep Vollala, Sreedhar Patty, Haoxing (Mark) Ren, Brucek Khailany
Placement Optimization via PPA-Directed Graph Clustering
Yi-Chen Lu, Tian Yang, Sung Kyu Lim, Haoxing (Mark) Ren
From RTL to CUDA: A GPU Acceleration Flow for RTL Simulation with Batch Stimulus
Dian-Lun Lin, Haoxing (Mark) Ren, Yanqing Zhang, Brucek Khailany, Tsung-Wei Huang