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Chen Chen 0172

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4ranked-venue papers
4as first author
4since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0007-8825-6260ORCID · conflict

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Systems, architecture and hardware · 3 · 3 first-author · 3 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
2 papers
Electronic design automation · 100%

Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Electronic design automation
logic synthesis
1.622025
E-morphic: Scalable Equality Saturation for Structural Exploration in Logic Synthesis · DAC 2025
E-Syn: E-Graph Rewriting with Technology-Aware Cost Functions for Logic Synthesis · DAC 2024
Electronic design automation › logic synthesis › logic optimization
resynthesis
0.912025
E-morphic: Scalable Equality Saturation for Structural Exploration in Logic Synthesis · DAC 2025
Electronic design automation › logic synthesis › logic optimization
technology-independent optimization
0.912025
E-morphic: Scalable Equality Saturation for Structural Exploration in Logic Synthesis · DAC 2025
Electronic design automation › logic synthesis
technology mapping
0.912025
E-morphic: Scalable Equality Saturation for Structural Exploration in Logic Synthesis · DAC 2025
Electronic design automation › logic synthesis › logic rewriting
e-graph rewriting
0.812024
E-Syn: E-Graph Rewriting with Technology-Aware Cost Functions for Logic Synthesis · DAC 2024
Electronic design automation › logic synthesis
logic rewriting
0.812024
E-Syn: E-Graph Rewriting with Technology-Aware Cost Functions for Logic Synthesis · DAC 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

simulated annealing · 0.9equality saturation · 0.9e-graph rewriting · 0.9technology-aware cost functions · 0.8e-graph · 0.8
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 ReVEAL: GNN-Guided Reverse Engineering for Formal Verification of Optimized Multipliers
Chen Chen 0172, Daniela Kaufmann, Chenhui Deng, Zhan Song, Hongce Zhang, Cunxi Yu
TACAS (2)1
2025 E-morphic: Scalable Equality Saturation for Structural Exploration in Logic Synthesis
abstract
In technology mapping, the quality of the final implementation heavily relies on the circuit structure after technologyindependent optimization. Recent studies have introduced equality saturation as a novel optimization approach. However, its efficiency remains a hurdle against its wide adoption in logic synthesis. This paper proposes a highly scalable and efficient framework named E-morphic. It is the first work that employs equality saturation for resynthesis after conventional technology-independent logic optimizations, enabling structure exploration before technology mapping. Powered by several key enhancements to the equality saturation framework, such as direct e-graph-circuit conversion, solution-space pruning, and simulated annealing for e-graph extraction, this approach not only improves the scalability and extraction efficiency of e-graph rewriting but also addresses the structural bias issue present in conventional logic synthesis flows through parallel structural exploration and resynthesis. Experiments show that, compared to the state-of-the-art delay optimization flow in ABC, E-morphic on average achieves 12.54% area saving and 7.29% delay reduction on the large-scale circuits in the EPFL benchmark.
Chen Chen 0172, Guangyu Hu, Cunxi Yu, Yuzhe Ma, Hongce Zhang
DAC1
2025 Revisit Choice Network for Synthesis and Technology Mapping
abstract
Choice network construction is a critical technique for alleviating structural bias issues in Boolean optimization, equivalence checking, and technology mapping. Previous works on lossless synthesis utilize independent optimization to generate multiple snapshots, and use simulation and SAT solvers to identify functionally equivalent nodes. These nodes are then merged into a subject graph with choice nodes. However, such methods often neglect the quality of these choices—raising the question of whether they truly contribute to effective technology mapping. This paper introduces CRISTAL, a novel methodology and framework to constructing Boolean choice networks. Specifically, CRISTAL introduces a novel flow of choice network-based synthesis and mapping, includes representative logic cone search, structural mutation for generating diverse choice structures via equality saturation, and priority-ranking choice selection along with choice network construction and validation. Through these techniques, CRISTAL constructs fewer but higher-quality choices. Our experimental results demonstrate that CRISTAL outperforms the state-of-the-art Boolean choice network construction implemented in ABC in the post-mapping stage, achieving average reductions of 3.85%/8.35% (area/delay) in delay-oriented mode, 0.11%/2.74% in area-oriented mode, and a 63.77% runtime reduction on large-scale cases, across a diverse set of combinational circuits from the IWLS 2005, ISCAS’89, and EPFL benchmark suites.
Chen Chen 0172, Cunxi Yu
ICCAD1
2024 E-Syn: E-Graph Rewriting with Technology-Aware Cost Functions for Logic Synthesis
abstract
Logic synthesis plays a crucial role in the digital design flow. It has a decisive influence on the final Quality of Results (QoR) of the circuit implementations. However, existing multi-level logic optimization algorithms often employ greedy approaches with a series of local optimization steps. Each step breaks the circuit into small pieces (e.g.,k-feasible cuts) and applies incremental changes to individual pieces separately. These local optimization steps could limit the exploration space and may miss opportunities for significant improvements. To address the limitation, this paper proposes using e-graph in logic synthesis. The new workflow, named E-Syn, makes use of the well-established e-graph infrastructure to efficiently perform logic rewriting. It explores a diverse set of equivalent Boolean representations while allowing technology-aware cost functions to better support delay-oriented and area-oriented logic synthesis. Experiments over a wide range of benchmark designs show our proposed logic optimization approach reaches a wider design space compared to the commonly used AIG-based logic synthesis flow. It achieves on average 15.29% delay saving in delay-oriented synthesis and 6.42% area saving for area-oriented synthesis.
Chen Chen 0172, Guangyu Hu, Dongsheng Zuo, Cunxi Yu, Yuzhe Ma, Hongce Zhang
DAC1