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LOADBench: A Large Open Analog Dataset and Benchmark for Machine Learning in IC Design

Leibl, M. L. ; Azevedo, F. A. ; Uhlich, S. U. ; Bonetti, A. B. ; Graeb, H. G. ; Martins, R. M.

LOADBench: A Large Open Analog Dataset and Benchmark for Machine Learning in IC Design, Proc ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning for CAD MLCAD, Jeju, Korea, South, Vol. , pp. - , September, 2026.

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Abstract
Machine learning (ML) for analog IC design is constrained by limited open data and the absence of standardized evaluation: results reported in different papers are typically obtained on bespoke, often closed, datasets and with ad-hoc metrics, leaving comparisons across methods unreliable. We address both gaps with a large open-source dataset and a suite of standardized benchmarks. The dataset contains more than 100 operational amplifier (opamp) topologies (1-, 2-, and 3-stage) in the SkyWater130 PDK, each shipped with structural and functional annotations, topology-specific sizing constraints (symmetry and sizing rules), an Ngspice testbench, and a multi-objective NSGA-II sizing run producing around 10^3 Pareto-optimal and 10^6 intermediate sizing-performance pairs per topology. On top of this data we define six benchmark tasks with precise protocols: inverse sizing, topology selection, sub-circuit classification, structural circuit generation, Pareto-membership prediction, and multi-objective optimization. Thus, the data presented here constitutes the most comprehensive dataset for ML development in over four decades of analog IC design automation. The dataset, ground-truth annotations, and reference implementations of the metric-
defining routines are released under an open license, enabling reproducible and directly comparable evaluation across heterogeneous analog design automation methods.