用大模型提升模拟电路尺寸优化效率,实现设计知识跨电路复用。
LLM-USO: Large Language Model-based Universal Sizing Optimizer
- 结合贝叶斯优化与大模型,将电路设计知识转为结构化文本
- 通过知识摘要机制实现相似电路间的优化经验迁移
- 适合芯片设计专家及自动化流程开发者参考
模拟电路设计是集成电路开发的核心,需对放大器、比较器、缓冲器等复杂互联子结构进行优化。传统方法依赖专家经验,通过精细调节子模块并考虑其相互依赖性来优化设计目标。现有方法如贝叶斯优化(BO)虽能高效探索设计空间,但仍存在两大短板:(i) 缺乏对尺寸解空间的语义理解及其与设计目标的直接关联;(ii) 无法复用不同电路中类似子结构的优化知识。为此,我们提出基于大语言模型的通用尺寸优化器(LLM-USO),通过结构化文本编码电路设计知识,实现优化洞察在相似子结构间的系统性复用。该方法采用混合框架,融合BO、大语言模型(LLMs)与学习摘要模块,实现:(i) 将领域知识注入BO过程,(ii) 支持跨电路知识迁移,类比专家设计认知策略。具体地,LLM-USO构建知识摘要机制以提炼并应用设计洞见;引入知识摘要批判机制保障摘要质量;并通过BO引导的建议过滤机制高效识别最优设计点。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The design of analog circuits is a cornerstone of integrated circuit (IC) development, requiring the optimization of complex, interconnected sub-structures such as amplifiers, comparators, and buffers. Traditionally, this process relies heavily on expert human knowledge to refine design objectives by carefully tuning sub-components while accounting for their interdependencies. Existing methods, such as Bayesian Optimization (BO), offer a mathematically driven approach for efficiently navigating large design spaces. However, these methods fall short in two critical areas compared to human expertise: (i) they lack the semantic understanding of the sizing solution space and its direct correlation with design objectives before optimization, and (ii) they fail to reuse knowledge gained from optimizing similar sub-structures across different circuits. To overcome these limitations, we propose the Large Language Model-based Universal Sizing Optimizer (LLM-USO), which introduces a novel method for knowledge representation to encode circuit design knowledge in a structured text format. This representation enables the systematic reuse of optimization insights for circuits with similar sub-structures. LLM-USO employs a hybrid framework that integrates BO with large language models (LLMs) and a learning summary module. This approach serves to: (i) infuse domain-specific knowledge into the BO process and (ii) facilitate knowledge transfer across circuits, mirroring the cognitive strategies of expert designers. Specifically, LLM-USO constructs a knowledge summary mechanism to distill and apply design insights from one circuit to related ones. It also incorporates a knowledge summary critiquing mechanism to ensure the accuracy and quality of the summaries and employs BO-guided suggestion filtering to identify optimal design points efficiently.
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