The first open-source dataset for machine learning applications in fast chip design

Electronic design automation (EDA) or computer-aided design (CAD) is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems, such as integrated circuits (ICs). With EDA tools, designers can finish the design flow of very large scale integrated (VLSI) chips with billions of transistors. EDA tools are essential to modern VLSI design due to the large scale and high complexity of electronic systems. Recently, with the boom of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, the EDA community is actively exploring AI for IC techniques for the design of advanced chips. Many studies have explored machine learning (ML) based techniques for cross-stage prediction tasks in the design flow to achieve faster design convergence.