AutoPPA: Automated Circuit PPA Optimization via Contrastive Code-based Rule Library Learning
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| author | Li, Chongxiao Jin, Pengwei Huang, Di Sun, Guangrun Han, Husheng Mu, Jianan Zheng, Xinyao Zhu, Jiaguo Xing, Shuyi Wei, Hanjun Ma, Tianyun Cheng, Shuyao Zhang, Rui Wang, Ying Du, Zidong Guo, Qi Hu, Xing |
| author_facet | Li, Chongxiao Jin, Pengwei Huang, Di Sun, Guangrun Han, Husheng Mu, Jianan Zheng, Xinyao Zhu, Jiaguo Xing, Shuyi Wei, Hanjun Ma, Tianyun Cheng, Shuyao Zhang, Rui Wang, Ying Du, Zidong Guo, Qi Hu, Xing |
| contents | Performance, power, and area (PPA) optimization is a fundamental task in RTL design, requiring a precise understanding of circuit functionality and the relationship between circuit structures and PPA metrics. Recent studies attempt to automate this process using LLMs, but neither feedback-based nor knowledge-based methods are efficient enough, as they either design without any prior knowledge or rely heavily on human-summarized optimization rules.
In this paper, we propose AutoPPA, a fully automated PPA optimization framework. The key idea is to automatically generate optimization rules that enhance the search for optimal solutions. To do this, AutoPPA employs an Explore-Evaluate-Induce ($E^2I$) workflow that contrasts and abstracts rules from diverse generated code pairs rather than manually defined prior knowledge, yielding better optimization patterns. To make the abstracted rules more generalizable, AutoPPA employs an adaptive multi-step search framework that adopts the most effective rules for a given circuit. Experiments show that AutoPPA outperforms both the manual optimization and the state-of-the-art methods SymRTLO and RTLRewriter. |
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| spellingShingle | AutoPPA: Automated Circuit PPA Optimization via Contrastive Code-based Rule Library Learning Li, Chongxiao Jin, Pengwei Huang, Di Sun, Guangrun Han, Husheng Mu, Jianan Zheng, Xinyao Zhu, Jiaguo Xing, Shuyi Wei, Hanjun Ma, Tianyun Cheng, Shuyao Zhang, Rui Wang, Ying Du, Zidong Guo, Qi Hu, Xing Machine Learning Hardware Architecture Performance, power, and area (PPA) optimization is a fundamental task in RTL design, requiring a precise understanding of circuit functionality and the relationship between circuit structures and PPA metrics. Recent studies attempt to automate this process using LLMs, but neither feedback-based nor knowledge-based methods are efficient enough, as they either design without any prior knowledge or rely heavily on human-summarized optimization rules. In this paper, we propose AutoPPA, a fully automated PPA optimization framework. The key idea is to automatically generate optimization rules that enhance the search for optimal solutions. To do this, AutoPPA employs an Explore-Evaluate-Induce ($E^2I$) workflow that contrasts and abstracts rules from diverse generated code pairs rather than manually defined prior knowledge, yielding better optimization patterns. To make the abstracted rules more generalizable, AutoPPA employs an adaptive multi-step search framework that adopts the most effective rules for a given circuit. Experiments show that AutoPPA outperforms both the manual optimization and the state-of-the-art methods SymRTLO and RTLRewriter. |
| title | AutoPPA: Automated Circuit PPA Optimization via Contrastive Code-based Rule Library Learning |
| topic | Machine Learning Hardware Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18445 |