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Wu, Hongxi (Wu, Hongxi.) [1] | Huang, Zhipeng (Huang, Zhipeng.) [2] | Li, Xingquan (Li, Xingquan.) [3] | Zhu, Wenxing (Zhu, Wenxing.) [4] (Scholars:朱文兴)

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Gate sizing and buffer insertion for timing optimization are performed extensively in electronic design automation (EDA) flows. Both of them aim to adjust the upstream and downstream capacitances of gates/buffers to minimize delay. However, most of existing work focuses on gate sizing or buffer insertion independently. This paper proposes a learning -based timing optimization framework, AiTO, that combines reinforcement learning with graph neural network, to perform simultaneously gate sizing and buffer insertion. We model buffer insertion as a special gate sizing by determining possible buffer locations in advance and treating the buffer insertion and gate sizing as an RL process. Experimental results on 10 real designs (28-nm and 110-nm) show that, AiTO can achieve better worst negative slack (WNS) optimization results than OpenROAD while being able to improve the results of the commercial tool, Innovus, to some extent. Moreover, ablation studies demonstrate the benefits of performing simultaneous gate sizing and buffer insertion for timing optimization.

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Buffer insertion Gate sizing Graph neural network Reinforcement learning Timing optimization

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  • [ 1 ] [Wu, Hongxi]Fuzhou Univ, Ctr Discrete Math & Theoret Comp Sci, Fuzhou, Peoples R China
  • [ 2 ] [Zhu, Wenxing]Fuzhou Univ, Ctr Discrete Math & Theoret Comp Sci, Fuzhou, Peoples R China
  • [ 3 ] [Huang, Zhipeng]Peng Cheng Lab, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
  • [ 4 ] [Li, Xingquan]Peng Cheng Lab, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
  • [ 5 ] [Li, Xingquan]Minnan Normal Univ, Sch Math & Stat, Zhangzhou, Peoples R China

Reprint 's Address:

  • [Zhu, Wenxing]Fuzhou Univ, Ctr Discrete Math & Theoret Comp Sci, Fuzhou, Peoples R China;;

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INTEGRATION-THE VLSI JOURNAL

ISSN: 0167-9260

Year: 2024

Volume: 98

2 . 2 0 0

JCR@2023

CAS Journal Grade:3

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