News & Updates

Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (TCAD), 2025. (CCF-A)

(1) iPCL-M: Pre-training of Chip Layout for Metrics Evaluation and Optimization – Xinhua Lai et al.
(2) DiffDEG: Diffusion-Enhanced Design Evolution Graph Representation Learning for Post-Layout Optimization – Jiajie Xu et al.

Presented at the 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2026. (CCF-C)

Accepted in IEEE TCAD, 2026. (CCF-A)

Accepted in ACM TODAES, 2026. (CCF-B)

Accepted in IEEE TCAD, 2025. (CCF-A)

(1) A Fast, Iterative Clock Skew Scheduling Algorithm – Shijian Chen et al.
(2) Differentiable Net-Moving for Routability-Driven Global Placement – Wenchao Li et al.

Accepted at DATE 2025. (CCF-B)

Presented at ASP-DAC 2025. (CCF-C)

AiEDA-2.0: An Open-source AI-Aided Design Library for Design-to-Vector – Yihang Qiu et al.

Accepted at NeurIPS 2024. (CCF-A)

(1) Toward Controllable Hierarchical CTS with Skew-Latency-Load Tree – Weiguo Li et al.
(2) Net Resource Allocation: A Desirable Initial Routing Step – Zhisheng Zeng et al.

Multiple papers and demos from our group at the IEEE International Symposium of EDA 2024.

iEDA: An Open-Source Intelligent Physical Implementation Toolkit and Library receives the Best Paper Award at ISEDA 2023.

(1) Handling Orientation and Aspect Ratio in Electrostatics-based Floorplanning – Fuxing Huang et al.
(2) iPL-3D: A Novel Bilevel Programming Model for Die-to-Die Placement – Xueyan Zhao et al.

AiMap (Technology Mapping via ML) and Adaptive AIG Rewriting via Strategy Learning.

Third consecutive ICCAD contest 1st-place award (also won in 2017 and 2018).

Honored with the Operational Research Application Award from the Chinese Operations Research Society.

Ph.D. dissertation "Layout Decomposition Design for Manufacturability" awarded Fujian Excellent Doctoral Dissertation.