Summary of Pdnnet: Pdn-aware Gnn-cnn Heterogeneous Network For Dynamic Ir Drop Prediction, by Yuxiang Zhao et al.
PDNNet: PDN-Aware GNN-CNN Heterogeneous Network for Dynamic IR Drop Prediction
by Yuxiang Zhao, Zhuomin Chai, Xun Jiang, Yibo Lin, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel machine learning-based approach for predicting power delivery network (PDN) dynamic IR drops in IC designs. The authors argue that current CNN-based methods overlook PDN configuration and cell-PDN relation, leading to poor performance. To address this, they introduce the PDNGraph structure, which unifies PDN structure and fine-grained cell-PDN relations. A dual-branch heterogeneous network, PDNNet, is also proposed, combining graph neural networks (GNNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The authors claim that their approach achieves 545x speedup compared to a commercial tool and outperforms state-of-the-art CNN-based methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about using computers to predict how power flows through tiny electronic circuits. It’s important because as these circuits get bigger, it gets harder for computers to figure out where the power goes. The current way of doing this uses special computer programs that are good at recognizing patterns, but they don’t take into account how the power delivery network is set up. This paper proposes a new way of doing things by using two different kinds of computer programs working together. It’s faster and more accurate than what we have now. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Cnn » Machine learning
