This technical paper titled “DNN-Opt: An RL Inspired Optimization for Analog Circuit Sizing using Deep Neural Networks” is co-authored from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, Intel, University of Glasgow. The paper was a best paper candidate at DAC 2021.
“In this paper, we present DNN-Opt, a novel Deep Neural Network (DNN) based black-box optimization framework for analog sizing. Our method outperforms other black-box optimization methods on small building blocks and large industrial circuits with significantly fewer simulations and better performance. This paper’s key contributions are a novel sample-efficient two-stage deep learning optimization framework inspired by the actor-critic algorithms developed in the Reinforcement Learning (RL) community and its extension for industrial-scale circuits. This is the first application of DNN based circuit sizing on industrial scale circuits to the best of our knowledge,” according to the DAC presentation.
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Authors: Ahmet F. Budak, Prateek Bhansali, Bo Liu, Nan Sun, David Z. Pan, Chandramouli V. Kashyap.
arXiv:2110.00211v1
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