Welcome to the homepage of NVIDIA’s Design Automation Research group. We do research in novel design automation methods to improve chip design quality and design productivity. Our projects cover many chip design processes, from RTL design to verification, from digital design to analog design, and from logic synthesis and physical design to sign-off and design-for-manufacturing. Key research areas include:
We collaborate with other NVIDIA research groups, internal HW design teams, as well as major university research groups and commercial companies. Graduate students interested in interning with us are welcome to reach out directly to team members for more details.
March 2025 - Our work “Cypress: VLSI-Inspired PCB Placement with GPU Acceleration” (paper link) won the Best Paper Award at ISPD'25
March 2025 - Our work “LEGO-Size: LLM-Enhanced GPU-Optimized Signoff-Accurate Differentiable VLSI Gate Sizing in Advanced Nodes” (paper link) is nominated to the Best Paper Award at ISPD'25
March 2025 - We are organizing ICCAD'25 contest (Problem C) on Incremental Placement Optimization Beyond Detailed Placement: Simultaneous Gate Sizing, Buffering, and Cell Relocation (link)
Oct 2024 - We are organizing ICCAD'24 contest on LLM-Assisted Hardware Code Generation (link)
Oct 2024 - We are organizing ICCAD'24 contest on Scalable Logic Gate Sizing Using ML Techniques and GPU Acceleration (link)
Sep 2024 - Our work “PyHDL-Eval: An LLM Evaluation Framework for Hardware Design Using Python-Embedded DSLs” (paper link) won the Best Artifact Award at MLCAD 2024
August 2024 - Website goes live!
June 2024 - Our work “Large Language Model (LLM) for Standard Cell Layout Design Optimization” (paper link) won the Best Paper Award at LAD 2024
March 2024 - We organized the ISPD'24 contest (link) on the topic of GPU/ML-Enhanced Large Scale Global Routing
March 2024 - Our work “Novel Transformer Model Based Clustering Method for Standard Cell Design Automation” (paper link) won the Best Paper Award at ISPD 2024
2025 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
2025 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
2025 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
2025 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
2025 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
2025 The Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys)
2025 IEEE VLSI-DAT
2025 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)
Nominated to Best Paper Award