arXiv:2508.05113cs.AI2025-08被引 5

用轻量LLM+智能搜索,一键适配多工艺节点的模拟电路尺寸设计。

EasySize: Elastic Analog Circuit Sizing via LLM-Guided Heuristic Search

  • 基于微调的Qwen3-8B模型,动态构建任务专用损失函数。
  • 在3个工艺节点上无需额外训练,仿真资源减少超96%。
  • 适合追求高效、通用的集成电路设计工程师使用。

模拟电路设计是芯片开发中耗时且依赖经验的任务。尽管人工智能取得进展,但实现通用、快速、稳定的模拟电路门尺寸设计方法仍是重大挑战。现有方法结合大语言模型(LLMs)与启发式搜索,但通常依赖大模型且难以跨工艺节点迁移。为此,我们提出EasySize,首个基于微调Qwen3-8B的轻量级门尺寸设计框架,可跨工艺节点、设计规格和电路拓扑通用。EasySize利用性能指标可达性差异(EOA),动态构建任务特定损失函数,通过全局差分进化(DE)与局部粒子群优化(PSO)在反馈增强流程中实现高效搜索。仅在350nm节点数据上微调,EasySize在180nm、45nm、22nm节点上的5个运算放大器(Op-Amp)网表上表现优异,且在86.67%的任务中超越AutoCkt(基于强化学习的尺寸设计框架),仿真资源消耗减少超过96.67%。我们认为EasySize能显著降低对人工经验与计算资源的依赖,加速并简化模拟电路设计流程。EasySize将于后期开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Analog circuit design is a time-consuming, experience-driven task in chip development. Despite advances in AI, developing universal, fast, and stable gate sizing methods for analog circuits remains a significant challenge. Recent approaches combine Large Language Models (LLMs) with heuristic search techniques to enhance generalizability, but they often depend on large model sizes and lack portability across different technology nodes. To overcome these limitations, we propose EasySize, the first lightweight gate sizing framework based on a finetuned Qwen3-8B model, designed for universal applicability across process nodes, design specifications, and circuit topologies. EasySize exploits the varying Ease of Attainability (EOA) of performance metrics to dynamically construct task-specific loss functions, enabling efficient heuristic search through global Differential Evolution (DE) and local Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) within a feedback-enhanced flow. Although finetuned solely on 350nm node data, EasySize achieves strong performance on 5 operational amplifier (Op-Amp) netlists across 180nm, 45nm, and 22nm technology nodes without additional targeted training, and outperforms AutoCkt, a widely-used Reinforcement Learning based sizing framework, on 86.67\% of tasks with more than 96.67\% of simulation resources reduction. We argue that EasySize can significantly reduce the reliance on human expertise and computational resources in gate sizing, thereby accelerating and simplifying the analog circuit design process. EasySize will be open-sourced at a later date.

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