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In the realm of electronic and electrical engineering, automation of analog circuit is increasingly vital given the complexity and customized requirements of modern applications. However, existing methods only develop search-based…

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Circuit link prediction, which identifies missing component connections from incomplete netlists, is crucial in analog circuit design automation. However, existing methods face three main challenges: 1) Insufficient use of topological…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Guanyuan Pan , Tiansheng Zhou , Jianxiang Zhao , Zhi Li , Yugui Lin , Bingtao Ma , Yaqi Wang , Pietro Liò , Shuai Wang

Sketching out Graphical User Interface (GUI) layout is part of the pipeline of designing a GUI and a crucial task for the success of a software application. Arranging all components inside a GUI layout manually is a time-consuming task. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Andrey Sobolevsky , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

Analog/mixed-signal circuits are key for interfacing electronics with the physical world. Their design, however, remains a largely handcrafted process, resulting in long and error-prone design cycles. While the recent rise of AI-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Kaichang Chen , Georges Gielen

Automated design of analog and radio-frequency circuits using supervised or reinforcement learning from simulation data has recently been studied as an alternative to manual expert design. It is straightforward for a design agent to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Dmitrii Krylov , Pooya Khajeh , Junhan Ouyang , Thomas Reeves , Tongkai Liu , Hiba Ajmal , Hamidreza Aghasi , Roy Fox

I present the Automated Line Fitting Algorithm, ALFA, a new code which can fit emission line spectra of arbitrary wavelength coverage and resolution, fully automatically. In contrast to traditional emission line fitting methods which…

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We present a computer-aided design flow for quantum circuits, complete with automatic layout and control logic extraction. To motivate automated layout for quantum circuits, we investigate grid-based layouts and show a performance variance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Mark Whitney , Nemanja Isailovic , Yatish Patel , John Kubiatowicz

Analog circuits are crucial in modern electronic systems, and automating their design has attracted significant research interest. One of major challenges is topology synthesis, which determines circuit components and their connections.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Haoyi Zhang , Shizhao Sun , Yibo Lin , Runsheng Wang , Jiang Bian

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) suggest strong potential for automating analog circuit design. Yet most LLM-based approaches rely on a single-model loop of generation, diagnosis, and correction, which favors succinct…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zhixuan Bao , Zhuoyi Lin , Jiageng Wang , Jinhai Hu , Yuan Gao , Yaoxin Wu , Xiaoli Li , Xun Xu

Many complex engineering systems can be represented in a topological form, such as graphs. This paper utilizes a machine learning technique called Geometric Deep Learning (GDL) to aid designers with challenging, graph-centric design…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Anthony Sirico , Daniel R. Herber

Reverse engineering an integrated circuit netlist is a powerful tool to help detect malicious logic and counteract design piracy. A critical challenge in this domain is the correct classification of data-path and control-logic registers in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Subhajit Dutta Chowdhury , Kaixin Yang , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Circuit representation learning has shown promise in advancing Electronic Design Automation (EDA) by capturing structural and functional circuit properties for various tasks. Existing pre-trained solutions rely on graph learning with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wenji Fang , Wenkai Li , Shang Liu , Yao Lu , Hongce Zhang , Zhiyao Xie

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) for automating analog circuit synthesis have been significant, yet challenges remain. A critical gap is the lack of a standardized evaluation framework, compounded by various process design kits…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Jintao Li , Haochang Zhi , Ruiyu Lyu , Wangzhen Li , Zhaori Bi , Keren Zhu , Yanhan Zeng , Weiwei Shan , Changhao Yan , Fan Yang , Yun Li , Xuan Zeng

We present a method for the automatic generation of netlists describing general three-dimensional electrothermal and electromagnetic field problems. Using a pair of structured orthogonal grids as spatial discretisation, a one-to-one…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Thorben Casper , David Duque , Sebastian Schöps , Herbert De Gersem

Analog circuit design remains a knowledge- and experience-intensive process that relies heavily on human intuition for topology generation and device parameter tuning. Existing LLM-based approaches typically depend on prompt-driven netlist…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zining Wang , Jian Gao , Weimin Fu , Xiaolong Guo , Xuan Zhang

This paper proposes a methodology of integrating the Linear Graph (LG) approach with Genetic Programming (GP) for generating an automated multi-domain engineering design approach by using the in-house developed LG MATLAB toolbox and the GP…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Eric McCormick , Haoxiang Lang , Clarence W. de Silva

The automation of analog integrated circuit (IC) design remains a longstanding challenge, primarily due to the intricate interdependencies among physical layout, parasitic effects, and circuit-level performance. These interactions impose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Giuseppe Chiari , Michele Piccoli , Davide Zoni

The adoption of machine learning-based techniques for analog integrated circuit layout, unlike its digital counterpart, has been limited by the stringent requirements imposed by electric and problem-specific constraints, along with the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Davide Basso , Luca Bortolussi , Mirjana Videnovic-Misic , Husni Habal

This paper presents an automated software toolchain for synthesizing hardware-implementable analog circuits that solve constrained optimization problems. The proposed toolchain supports nonlinear objective functions with linear and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Sachin Khoja , Kamlesh Sawant , Palak Jain , Sairaj Dhople , Jason Poon

Analog mixed-signal (AMS) circuit architecture has evolved towards more digital friendly due to technology scaling and demand for higher flexibility/reconfigurability. Meanwhile, the design complexity and cost of AMS circuits has…

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