FloorSet -- a VLSI Floorplanning Dataset with Design Constraints of Real-World SoCs

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Main Authors: Mallappa, Uday, Mostafa, Hesham, Galkin, Mikhail, Phielipp, Mariano, Majumdar, Somdeb
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author Mallappa, Uday
Mostafa, Hesham
Galkin, Mikhail
Phielipp, Mariano
Majumdar, Somdeb
author_facet Mallappa, Uday
Mostafa, Hesham
Galkin, Mikhail
Phielipp, Mariano
Majumdar, Somdeb
contents Floorplanning for systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) and its sub-systems is a crucial and non-trivial step of the physical design flow. It represents a difficult combinatorial optimization problem. A typical large scale SoC with 120 partitions generates a search-space of nearly 10E250. As novel machine learning (ML) approaches emerge to tackle such problems, there is a growing need for a modern benchmark that comprises a large training dataset and performance metrics that better reflect real-world constraints and objectives compared to existing benchmarks. To address this need, we present FloorSet -- two comprehensive datasets of synthetic fixed-outline floorplan layouts that reflect the distribution of real SoCs. Each dataset has 1M training samples and 100 test samples where each sample is a synthetic floor-plan. FloorSet-Prime comprises fully-abutted rectilinear partitions and near-optimal wire-length. A simplified dataset that reflects early design phases, FloorSet-Lite comprises rectangular partitions, with under 5 percent white-space and near-optimal wire-length. Both datasets define hard constraints seen in modern design flows such as shape constraints, edge-affinity, grouping constraints, and pre-placement constraints. FloorSet is intended to spur fundamental research on large-scale constrained optimization problems. Crucially, FloorSet alleviates the core issue of reproducibility in modern ML driven solutions to such problems. FloorSet is available as an open-source repository for the research community.
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spellingShingle FloorSet -- a VLSI Floorplanning Dataset with Design Constraints of Real-World SoCs
Mallappa, Uday
Mostafa, Hesham
Galkin, Mikhail
Phielipp, Mariano
Majumdar, Somdeb
Hardware Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Floorplanning for systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) and its sub-systems is a crucial and non-trivial step of the physical design flow. It represents a difficult combinatorial optimization problem. A typical large scale SoC with 120 partitions generates a search-space of nearly 10E250. As novel machine learning (ML) approaches emerge to tackle such problems, there is a growing need for a modern benchmark that comprises a large training dataset and performance metrics that better reflect real-world constraints and objectives compared to existing benchmarks. To address this need, we present FloorSet -- two comprehensive datasets of synthetic fixed-outline floorplan layouts that reflect the distribution of real SoCs. Each dataset has 1M training samples and 100 test samples where each sample is a synthetic floor-plan. FloorSet-Prime comprises fully-abutted rectilinear partitions and near-optimal wire-length. A simplified dataset that reflects early design phases, FloorSet-Lite comprises rectangular partitions, with under 5 percent white-space and near-optimal wire-length. Both datasets define hard constraints seen in modern design flows such as shape constraints, edge-affinity, grouping constraints, and pre-placement constraints. FloorSet is intended to spur fundamental research on large-scale constrained optimization problems. Crucially, FloorSet alleviates the core issue of reproducibility in modern ML driven solutions to such problems. FloorSet is available as an open-source repository for the research community.
title FloorSet -- a VLSI Floorplanning Dataset with Design Constraints of Real-World SoCs
topic Hardware Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05480