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S. Arash Mirhaj

dblp:91/10324 · also Arash Mirhaj, Seyed Arash Mirhaj · DBLP profile ↗
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · none

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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Electronic design automation · 54% Integrated circuit design · 46%

Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Integrated circuit design
analog and mixed-signal circuits
0.612022
Automated Design of Analog Circuits Using Reinforcement Learning · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2022
Integrated circuit design › analog and mixed-signal circuits
analog circuit design
0.612022
Automated Design of Analog Circuits Using Reinforcement Learning · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2022
Electronic design automation › circuit sizing
analog circuit sizing
0.612022
Automated Design of Analog Circuits Using Reinforcement Learning · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2022
Electronic design automation
circuit sizing
0.612022
Automated Design of Analog Circuits Using Reinforcement Learning · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2022
Electronic design automation
physical design
0.212022
Automated Design of Analog Circuits Using Reinforcement Learning · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2022

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

reinforcement learning · 0.6distribution deployment algorithm · 0.6
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2022 Automated Design of Analog Circuits Using Reinforcement Learning
abstract
Analog and mixed-signal (AMS) blocks are often a crucial and time-consuming part of System-on-Chip (SoC) design, primarily due to a manual circuit and layout iterations. Existing automated solutions for selecting circuit parameters for a given target specification are often not efficient, accurate, or reliable. In order for an automated sizing tool to be practical, we posit that it must: 1) return valid results for a large range of target specifications; 2) understand where and why it is unable to meet certain specifications; 3) consider true layout parasitic simulations for complete end-to-end design; and 4) be automated, allowing most of the design effort to fall on the tool. In this article, we address these critical points by establishing an automated reinforcement learning framework, AutoCkt, by 1) successfully deploying it on a complex two-stage transimpedance amplifier and two-stage folded cascode with biasing in the 16-nm FinFet technology; 2) implementing a new combined distribution deployment algorithm to improve efficiency; 3) analyzing in-depth the efficacy of the trained agent; and 4) demonstrating the functionality of this tool when considering a topology that is highly sensitive to layout parasitics. Our algorithm not only successfully reaches unique, valid, and practical performances, but also does so in state-of-the-art run time, up to 38X more efficient than prior work. In addition, our tool averages just four parasitic simulations obtained by using the Berkeley Analog Generator, to achieve a target specification post-layout for the folded cascode. AutoCkt successfully generates LVS-passed designs with validation in process corner variation results.
Keertana Settaluri, Zhaokai Liu, Rishubh Khurana, S. Arash Mirhaj, Rajeev Jain, Borivoje Nikolic
IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst.4