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The use of deep learning has grown at an exponential rate, giving rise to numerous specialized hardware and software systems for deep learning. Because the design space of deep learning software stacks and hardware accelerators is diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhan Shi , Chirag Sakhuja , Milad Hashemi , Kevin Swersky , Calvin Lin

Macro placement is a critical phase in chip design, which becomes more intricate when involving general rectilinear macros and layout areas. Furthermore, macro placement that incorporates human-like constraints, such as design hierarchy and…

Due to the unavailability of routing information in design stages prior to detailed routing (DR), the tasks of timing prediction and optimization pose major challenges. Inaccurate timing prediction wastes design effort, hurts circuit…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Vidya A. Chhabria , Wenjing Jiang , Andrew B. Kahng , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

The process of robot design is a complex task and the majority of design decisions are still based on human intuition or tedious manual tuning. A more informed way of facing this task is computational design methods where design parameters…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Álvaro Belmonte-Baeza , Joonho Lee , Giorgio Valsecchi , Marco Hutter

The design of an electrical machine can be quantified and evaluated by Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as maximum torque, critical field strength, costs of active parts, sound power, etc. Generally, cross-domain tool-chains are used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Vivek Parekh , Dominik Flore , Sebastian Schöps

There is substantial interest in the use of machine learning (ML)-based techniques throughout the electronic computer-aided design (CAD) flow, particularly methods based on deep learning. However, while deep learning methods have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Chester Holtz , Yucheng Wang , Chung-Kuan Cheng , Bill Lin

Flexibility at hardware level is the main driving force behind adaptive systems whose aim is to realise microarhitecture deconfiguration 'online'. This feature allows the software/hardware stack to tolerate drastic changes of the workload…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Ana Lava , Mahdi Jelodari Mamaghani , Siamak Mohammadi , Steve Furber

Industry 4.0 has become a driver for the entire manufacturing industry. Smart systems have enabled 30% productivity increases and predictive maintenance has been demonstrated to provide a 50% reduction in machine downtime. So far, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Taner Dosluoglu , Martin MacDonald

With the rapidly increasing complexity of modern chips, hardware engineers are required to invest more effort in tasks such as circuit design, verification, and physical implementation. These workflows often involve continuous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Kangwei Xu , Ruidi Qiu , Zhuorui Zhao , Grace Li Zhang , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

Design rule check is a critical step in the physical design of integrated circuits to ensure manufacturability. However, it can be done only after a time-consuming detailed routing procedure, which adds drastically to the time of design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Wei Zeng , Azadeh Davoodi , Yu Hen Hu

There is a growing need for computational tools to automatically design and verify autonomous systems, especially complex robotic systems involving perception, planning, control, and hardware in the autonomy stack. Differentiable…

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In this work, we present a learning-based approach to chip placement, one of the most complex and time-consuming stages of the chip design process. Unlike prior methods, our approach has the ability to learn from past experience and improve…

High-fidelity physics simulations are powerful tools in the design and optimization of charged particle accelerators. However, the computational burden of these simulations often limits their use in practice for design optimization and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Auralee Edelen , Nicole Neveu , Yannick Huber , Mattias Frey , Christopher Mayes , Andreas Adelmann

High-precision positioning is vital for cellular networks to support innovative applications such as extended reality, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Existing positioning algorithms using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Shugong Xu , Jun Jiang , Wenjun Yu , Yilin Gao , Guangjin Pan , Shiyi Mu , Zhiqi Ai , Yuan Gao , Peigang Jiang , Cheng-Xiang Wang

The efficient deployment and fine-tuning of foundation models are pivotal in contemporary artificial intelligence. In this study, we present a groundbreaking paradigm integrating Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) with foundation models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Wenhan Yu , Terence Jie Chua , Jun Zhao

Floorplanning determines the coordinate and shape of each module in Integrated Circuits. With the scaling of technology nodes, in floorplanning stage especially 3D scenarios with multiple stacked layers, it has become increasingly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ruizhe Zhong , Xingbo Du , Junchi Yan

Placing applications in mobile edge computing servers presents a complex challenge involving many servers, users, and their requests. Existing algorithms take a long time to solve high-dimensional problems with significant uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Taha-Hossein Hejazi , Zahra Ghadimkhani , Arezoo Borji

In this paper, we study multiple problems from sponsored product optimization in ad system, including position-based de-biasing, click-conversion multi-task learning, and calibration on predicted click-through-rate (pCTR). We propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yanbing Xue , Bo Liu , Weizhi Du , Jayanth Korlimarla , Musen Men

Advances in sensor technology and automation have ushered in an era of data abundance, where the ability to identify and extract relevant information in real time has become increasingly critical. Traditional filtering approaches, which…

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