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An Efficient Performance-driven Analog IC Placement Optimizer via Extremely Randomized Tree-based Post-Layout Performance Regressors

Martins, R. M. ; Lourenço, N.

An Efficient Performance-driven Analog IC Placement Optimizer via Extremely Randomized Tree-based Post-Layout Performance Regressors, Proc IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration VLSI-SoC, Tangier, Morocco, Vol. , pp. - , October, 2024.

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Abstract
This paper presents a performance-driven (PD) analog integrated circuit (IC) placement generator highly integrated with off-the-shelf tools, e.g., simulator, layout-versus-schematic and extractor, that promotes an exhaustive simulation-based synthesis. However, to bypass the time-consuming extractions and simulations, novel post-layout performance regressors based on different highly accurate machine learning (ML) techniques are developed. The data used to train them can be directly and conveniently acquired from previous precise post-placement simulations. Experimental results show that a set of performance regressors based on extremely randomized trees (ERTs) operating on compressed design spaces allow to speed-up synthesis more than 20×, which represents a step forward towards an efficient fully automatic PD analog IC design flow.