Publications

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Journal Papers

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

C19. 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.
• Accepted

C18. 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.
• Accepted

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.

C13. Universal Symmetry Constraint Extraction for Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits with Graph Neural Networks

• 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

C10. MAGICAL 1.0: An Open-Source Fully-Automated AMS Layout Synthesis Framework Verified With a 40-nm 1GS/s Δ∑ ADC

• 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

• preprint | slides
• Keren Zhu, Mingjie Liu, Yibo Lin, Biying Xu, 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.
• Best Paper Candidate Nominated from Track