Machine Learning is Changing the Game for Variability and Characterization and will soon help Aanalog and Digital Verification
Amit Gupta
Mentor, a Siemens Business, US
ABSTRACT
The Golden Age of machine learning is upon EDA. Over the past four years, we have seen large EDA suppliers and customers grow their internal ML teams and strategies, and ML research projects are emerging in all areas of EDA. But, we have not yet seen much of this investment convert into real production flows and work. This talk reviews a set of challenges that make it difficult to bring ML solutions to production for semiconductor design, and discusses approaches for solving them. We will discuss how these approaches are already benefiting variation-aware design and characterization flows, and the broader applicability to analog and digital verification.
