CFIRSTNET: Comprehensive Features for Static IR Drop Estimation with Neural Network

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Yu-Tung, Cheng, Yu-Hao, Wu, Shao-Yu, Chen, Hung-Ming
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author Liu, Yu-Tung
Cheng, Yu-Hao
Wu, Shao-Yu
Chen, Hung-Ming
author_facet Liu, Yu-Tung
Cheng, Yu-Hao
Wu, Shao-Yu
Chen, Hung-Ming
contents IR drop estimation is now considered a first-order metric due to the concern about reliability and performance in modern electronic products. Since traditional solution involves lengthy iteration and simulation flow, how to achieve fast yet accurate estimation has become an essential demand. In this work, with the help of modern AI acceleration techniques, we propose a comprehensive solution to combine both the advantages of image-based and netlist-based features in neural network framework and obtain high-quality IR drop prediction very effectively in modern designs. A customized convolutional neural network (CNN) is developed to extract PDN features and make static IR drop estimations. Trained and evaluated with the open-source dataset, experiment results show that we have obtained the best quality in the benchmark on the problem of IR drop estimation in ICCAD CAD Contest 2023, proving the effectiveness of this important design topic.
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spellingShingle CFIRSTNET: Comprehensive Features for Static IR Drop Estimation with Neural Network
Liu, Yu-Tung
Cheng, Yu-Hao
Wu, Shao-Yu
Chen, Hung-Ming
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
IR drop estimation is now considered a first-order metric due to the concern about reliability and performance in modern electronic products. Since traditional solution involves lengthy iteration and simulation flow, how to achieve fast yet accurate estimation has become an essential demand. In this work, with the help of modern AI acceleration techniques, we propose a comprehensive solution to combine both the advantages of image-based and netlist-based features in neural network framework and obtain high-quality IR drop prediction very effectively in modern designs. A customized convolutional neural network (CNN) is developed to extract PDN features and make static IR drop estimations. Trained and evaluated with the open-source dataset, experiment results show that we have obtained the best quality in the benchmark on the problem of IR drop estimation in ICCAD CAD Contest 2023, proving the effectiveness of this important design topic.
title CFIRSTNET: Comprehensive Features for Static IR Drop Estimation with Neural Network
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12168