Publications
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Journal Papers
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
- Accepted | 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
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.
- Accepted
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.
- Accepted
- 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