Publications
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Books/Book Chpaters
B2b. 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, S. Ramprasath, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Arvind K. Sharma, Wenbin Xu, Soner Yaldiz, and Keren Zhu,
- Machine Learning Applications in Electronic Design Automation, Springer, 2022
- Authors in alphabetic order
B2a. Machine Learning for Analog Circuit Sizing
- Ahmet F. Budak*, Shuhan Zhang*, Mingjie Liu, Wei Shi, Keren Zhu, and David Z. Pan,
- Machine Learning Applications in Electronic Design Automation, Springer, 2022
- * Equal contribution
B1. CAD for Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
- Mohamed B. Alawieh, Ahmet F. Budak, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu, David Z. Pan, Wei Shi, Xiyuan Tang, Shuhan Zhang and Keren Zhu
- Advances in Semiconductor Technologies: Selected Topics Beyond Conventional CMOS, Wiley-IEEE Press., 2022
- Authors in alphabetic order
Journal Papers
J9. The Dawn of AI-Native EDA: Promises and Challenges of Large Circuit Models
- Arxiv
- Tsung-Yi Ho, Sadaf Khan, Jinwei Liu, Yi Liu, Zhengyuan Shi, Ziyi Wang, Qiang Xu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Bei Yu, Ziyang Zheng, Binwu Zhu, Keren Zhu, Yiqi Che, Yun Liang, Yibo Lin, Guojie Luo, Guangyu Sun, Runsheng Wang, Xinming Wei, Chenhao Xue, Haoyi Zhang, Zuodong Zhang, Yuxiang Zhao, Sunan Zou, Lei Chen, Yu Huang, Min Li, Dimitrios Tsaras, Mingxuan Yuan, Hui-Ling Zhen, Zhufei Chu, Wenji Fang, Xingquan Li and Zhiyao Xie
- SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2024.
- Accepeted
- Arxiv
- Harrison Jin, Hanqing Zhu, Keren Zhu, Thomas Leonard, Jaesuk Kwon, Mahshid Alamdar, Kwangseok Kim, Jungsik Park, Naoki Hase, David Z. Pan, Jean Anne C. Incorvia
- IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2024.
J7. ISOP+: Machine Learning-Assisted Inverse Stack-Up Optimization for Advanced Package Design
- Hyunsu Chae, Keren Zhu, Bhyrav Mutnury, Doug Wallace, Doug Winterburg, Daniel DeAraujo, Jay Reddy, Adam Klivans and David Z. Pan
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023.
J6. An In-Memory-Computing Charge-Domain Ternary CNN Classifier
- Xiangxing Yang, Keren Zhu, Xiyuan Tang, Meizhi Wang, Mingtao Zhan, Nanshu Lu, Jaydeep P. Kulkarni, David Z. Pan, Yongpan Liu and Nan Sun
- IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC), 2023.
J5. Hierarchical Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Placement Considering System Signal Flow
- Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu, and David Z. Pan
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023.
J4. 1- and 80-MS/s SAR ADCs in 40-nm CMOS With End-to-End Compilation
- Mingjie Liu*, Xiyuan Tang*, Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Nan Sun, and David Z. Pan
- IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, 2023.
- * indicates equal contributions in alphabetic order)
J3. Tutorial and Perspectives on MAGICAL: A Silicon-Proven Open-Source Analog IC Layout System
- Invited
- Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu and David Z. Pan
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems–II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II), 2022.
J2. Challenges and Opportunities Toward Fully Automated Analog Layout Design
- Invited
- Hao Chen*, Mingjie Liu *, Xiyuan Tang*, Keren Zhu *, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
- Journal of Semiconductors, 2020.
- Featured on the cover
- * In alphabetic order
J1. MAGICAL: An Open-Source Fully Automated Analog IC Layout System from Netlist to GDSII
- Invited
- Hao Chen*, Mingjie Liu *, Biying Xu*, Keren Zhu *, Xiyuan Tang, Shaolan Li, Yibo Lin, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
- IEEE Design & Test, 2020.
- *indicates equal contributions
Conference Papers
- preprint
- Hongjian Zhou, Keren Zhu, and Jiaqi Gu
- ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Austin, Mar. 16–19, 2025.
- (Accepted)
C38. HeLO: A Heterogeneous Logic Optimization Framework by Hierarchical Clustering and Graph Learning
- Yuan Pu, Fangzhou Liu, Zhuolun He, Keren Zhu, Rongliang Fu, Ziyi Wang, Tsung-Yi Ho, and Bei Yu
- ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Austin, Mar. 16–19, 2025.
- (Accepted)
C37. AnalogGym: An Open and Practical Testing Suite for Analog Circuit Synthesis
- Github Repo | preprint
- Jintao Li, Haochang Zhi, Ruiyu Lyu, Wangzhen Li, Zhaori Bi*, Keren Zhu*, Yanhan Zhen, Weiwei Shan, Changhao Yan, Fan Yang, Yun Li*, and Xuan Zeng*
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, NY, USA, Oct. 27–31, 2024.
- * corresponding authors
- (Invited)
C36. Physically Aware Synthesis Revisited: Guiding Technology Mapping with Primitive Logic Gate Placement
- preprint
- Hongyang Pan, Cunqing Lan, Yiting Liu, Zhiang Wang, Li Shang, Xuan Zeng, Fan Yang and Keren Zhu
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, NY, USA, Oct. 27–31, 2024.
- (Accepted)
- Ruiyu Lyu, Aidong Zhao, Yuan Meng, Zhaori Bi, Keren Zhu, Changhao Yan, Fan Yang, Dian Zhou and Xuan Zeng
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, NY, USA, Oct. 27–31, 2024.
- (Accepted)
C34. AI-Enabled Layout Automation for Analog and RF IC: Current Status and Future Directions
- Chuyu Wang, Fan Yang, and Keren Zhu
- IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT), Chengdu, China, Aug. 28–30, 2024.
C33. Performance-driven Analog Routing via Heterogeneous 3DGNN and Potential Relaxation
- Peng Xu, Guojin Chen, Keren Zhu, Tinghuan Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho, and Bei Yu
- IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) , San Francisco, USA, Jun. 23–27, 2024.
- Cunqing Lan, Xinyao Wang, Zijian Jiang, Hongyang Pan, Keren Zhu, Zhaori Bi, Changhao Yan and Xuan Zeng
- International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA), Xi’an, China, May 10–13, 2024.
C31. Universal Process Migration Solution of MAGICAL for Analog IC Layout Automation
- Yufeng Wei, Yifan Xu, Keren Zhu and Ye Lu
- 2024 Conference of Science and Technology for Integrated Circuits (CSTIC)
C30. A Data-Driven Analog Circuit Synthesizer with Automatic Topology Selection and Sizing
- Souradip Poddar, Ahmet Budak, Linran Zhao, Chen-Hao Hsu, Supriyo Maji, Keren Zhu, Yaoyao Jia, and David Z. Pan,
- IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Valencia, Spain, March 25 - 27, 2024.
C29. Multi-Electrostatics Based Placement for Non-Integer Multiple-Height Cells
- Yu Zhang, Yuan Pu, Fangzhou Liu, Peiyu Liao, Kaiyuan Chao, Keren Zhu, Yibo Lin, and Bei Yu,
- ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) , Taipei, March 12 - 15, 2024.
C28. Performance-Driven Analog Layout Automation: Current Status and Future Directions
- Peng Xu, Jintao Li, Tsung-Yi Ho, Bei Yu, and Keren Zhu,
- IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Incheon, S. Korea, Jan 22-25, 2024.
- Invited
- Ruiyu Lyu, Yuan Meng, Zhaori Bi, Keren Zhu, Fan Yang, Changhao Yan, Dian Zhou, and Xuan Zeng,
- IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Incheon, S. Korea, Jan 22-25, 2024.
- Invited
C26. ISOP-Yield: Yield-Aware Stack-Up Optimization for Advanced Package using Machine Learning
- Hyunsu Chae, Keren Zhu, Bhyrav Mutnury, Zixuan Jiang, Daniel de Araujo, Adam Klivans, and David Z. Pan,
- IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Incheon, S. Korea, Jan 22-25, 2024.
- Accepted
C25. AlphaSyn: Logic Synthesis Optimization with Efficient Monte Carlo Tree Search
- Zehua Pei, Fangzhou Liu, Zhuolun He, Guojin Chen, Haisheng Zheng, Keren Zhu and Bei Yu,
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Francisco, CA, October 29 - November 2, 2023.
- Accepted
C24. Practical Layout-Aware Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Automation with Bayesian Neural Networks
- Ahmet F. Budak, Keren Zhu and David Z. Pan
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Francisco, CA, October 29 - November 2, 2023.
C23. ISOP: Machine Learning-Assisted Inverse Stack-Up Optimization for Advanced Package Design
- Hyunsu Chae, Bhyrav Mutnury, Keren Zhu, Doug Wallace, Doug Winterburg, Daniel DeAraujo, Jay Reddy, Adam Klivans and David Z. Pan
- IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Antwerp, Belgium, April 17- 19, 2023.
C22. Joint Optimization of Sizing and Layout for AMS Designs: Challenges and Opportunities
- Ahmet F Budak, Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Souradip Poddar, Linran Zhao, Yaoyao Jia and David Z Pan
- ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Virtual Conference, March 26-29, 2023.
- Invited
C21. Reinforcement Learning Guided Detailed Routing for FinFET Custom Circuits
- Hao Chen, Kai-Chieh Hsu, Walker J. Turner, Po-Hsuan Wei, Keren Zhu, David Z. Pan and Haoxing Ren
- ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Virtual Conference, March 26-29, 2023.
C20. TAG: Learning Circuit Spatial Embedding From Layouts
- Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Walker Turner, George Kokai, Po-Hsuan Wei, David Z. Pan, and Haoxing Ren
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Diego, Oct. 30–Nov. 3, 2022.
C19. Fuse and Mix: MACAM-Enabled Analog Activation for Energy-Efficient Neural Acceleration
- Hanqing Zhu, Keren Zhu, Jiaqi Gu, Harrison Jin, Ray Chen, Jean Anne Incorvia, and David Z. Pan
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Diego, Oct. 30–Nov. 3, 2022.
C18. AutoCRAFT: Layout Automation for Custom Circuits in Advanced FinFET Technologies
- Hao Chen, Walker J. Turner, Sanquan Song, Keren Zhu, George F. Kokai, Brian Zimmer, C. Thomas, Gray, Brucek Khailany, David Z. Pan, and Haoxing Ren
- ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Virtual Conference, March 27-30, 2022.
- Invited
C17. Automating Analog Constraint Extraction: From Heuristics to Learning
- Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu, and David Z. Pan
- IEEE/ACM Asia and SouthPacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Virtual Conference, January 17-20, 2022.
- Invited
C16. Reinforcement Learning for Electronic Design Automation: Case Studies and Perspectives
- Ahmet F. Budak*, Zixuan Jiang*, Keren Zhu, Azalia Mirhoseini, Anna Goldie, and David Z. Pan
- IEEE/ACM Asia and SouthPacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Virtual Conference, January 17-20, 2022.
- Invited
- *indicates equal contributions
C15. Generative-Adversarial-Network-Guided Well-Aware Placement for Analog Circuits
- Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu, Xiyuan Tang, Wei Shi, Nan Sun, and David Z. Pan
- IEEE/ACM Asia and SouthPacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Virtual Conference, January 17-20, 2022.
C14. OpenSAR: An OpenSource Automated End-to-end SARADC Compiler
- source codes
- Mingjie Liu, Xiyuan Tang, Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Nan Sun, and David Z. Pan
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Virtual Conference, November 1-5, 2021.
- Hao Chen, Keren Zhu, Mingjie Liu, Xiyuan Tang, Nan Sun, and David Z. Pan
- ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2021.
C12. Optimizer Fusion: Efficient Training with Better Locality and Parallelism
- Zixuan Jiang, Jiaqi Gu, Mingjie Liu, Keren Zhu and David Z. Pan
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)Workshop, Hardware Aware Efficient Training (HAET), May 07, 2021.
C11. An In-Memory-Computing Charge-Domain Ternary CNN Classifier
- slides
- Xiangxing Yang, Keren Zhu, Xiyuan Tang, Meizhi Wang, Mingtao Zhan, Nanshu Lu, Jaydeep P. Kulkarni, David Z. Pan, Yongpan Liu and Nan Sun
- 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Virtual Event, April 25-30, 2021.
- Best Student Paper Award Nomination
- slides | video
- Hao Chen*, Mingjie Liu*, Xiyuan Tang*, Keren Zhu*, Abhishek Mukherjee, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
- 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Virtual Event, April 25-30, 2021.
- *indicates equal contributions
C9. Exploring Logic Optimizations with Reinforcement Learning and Graph Convolutional Network
- preprint | source codes | slides
- Keren Zhu, Mingjie Liu, Hao Chen, Zheng Zhao and David Z. Pan
- 2nd ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD),Virtual Event, Iceland, November 16-20, 2020.
C8. Toward Silicon-Proven Detailed Routing for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits
- preprint | slides
- Hao Chen, Keren Zhu, Mingjie Liu, Xiyuan Tang, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), November 02-05, 2020.
C7. Effective Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuit Placement Considering System Signal Flow
- preprint | source codes | slides
- Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu, Xiyuan Tang, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), November 02-05, 2020.
- Best Paper Candidate Nominated from Track
C6. An Efficient Training Framework for Reversible Neural Architectures
- preprint | slides
- Zixuan Jiang, Keren Zhu, Mingjie Liu, Jiaqi Gu and David Z. Pan
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Glasgow, United Kingdom, August 23-27, 2020.
C5. Closing the Design Loop: Bayesian Optimization Assisted Hierarchical Analog Layout Synthesis
- Mingjie Liu, Keren Zhu, Xiyuan Tang, Biying Xu, Wei Shi, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
- ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, July 19-23, 2020.
C4. Towards Decrypting the Art of Analog Layout: Placement Quality Prediction via Transfer Learning
- preprint | slides | source codes
- Mingjie Liu *, Keren Zhu *, Jiaqi Gu, Linxiao Shen, Xiyuan Tang, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
- IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Grenoble, France, Mar. 09-13, 2020.
- *indicates equal contributions
C3. S3DET: Detecting System Symmetry Constraints for Analog Circuits with Graph Similarity
- | codes for reference
- Mingjie Liu, Wuxi Li, Keren Zhu, Biying Xu, Yibo Lin, Linxiao Shen, Xiyuan Tang, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
- IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Beijing, China, January 13-16, 2020.
- Best Paper Award Nomination
C2. MAGICAL: Toward Fully Automated Analog IC Layout Leveraging Human and Machine Intelligence
- Invited
- preprint | slides
- Biying Xu, Keren Zhu, Mingjie Liu, Yibo Lin, Shaolan Li, Xiyuan Tang, Nan Sun, and David Z. Pan
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Westminster, CO, USA, November 4-7, 2019.
C1. GeniusRoute: A New Routing Paradigm Using Generative Neural Network Guidance for Analog Circuits