Researchers at Peking University Open-Source 'CircuitNet,' a Dataset for Machine Learning Applications in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

Electronic design automation (EDA), often known as computer-aided design (CAD), is a class of software tools used to create electronic systems like integrated circuits (ICs). EDA tools enable designers to create a design for large-scale integrated chips (VLSI) with billions of transistors. Due to the size and complexity of current electronic systems, EDA tools are crucial for VLSI design. The EDA research community has recently been actively investigating AI for IC methodologies to design cutting-edge chips, thanks to the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. Numerous studies have investigated machine learning-based solutions for cross-stage prediction tasks in the design cycle to promote speedier design convergence.